Mice


Unperceived through key-holes creep
When all around have sunk to sleep 
To feast on what the cotter leaves 
Mice are not reckoned greater thieves 
They take away as well as eat 
& still the housewifes eye they cheat 
In spite of all the folks that swarm 
In cottage small & larger farm 
They through each key-hole pop & pop 
Like wasps into a grocers shop
With all the things that they can win 
From chance to put their plunder in

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