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

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