Lay of the Spring + 

Let others sing their favourite lay, + 

From early morn till close of day, + 

More useful themes engage our pen, + 

We sing the lay of our good hen. + 

For she doth lay each morn an egg, + 

And it is full and large and big, + 

Abroad she doth never travel, + 

Happy she when scratching gravel. + 

And she loud cackles songs of praise + 

Every morn when e’er she lays, + 

Proud she is when she finds pickings + 

For to feed her brood of chickens. + 

It greatly puzzled her one day + 

When she found white nest egg of clay, + 

She knew some one did trick play her, + 

For she was no brick layer. + 

Vain and stately male bird stalks, + 

Leading his hens along the walks, + 

Proudly each feather in his tail + 

Makes rival roosters for to quail. + 

Our muse now soars on feathery wing, + 

And cheerful it doth hail the spring, + 

Bringing the sunshine and showers, + 

Green grass and buds and leafy bowers. + 

So pleasant is the month of May, + 

When bushes shoot out blooming spray, + 

’Ere spring we’re tired of winter’s white, + 

Spring’s varied colours do delight. + 