Pome
Doris Asher
My six your old grand Godson asked me to tell him some stories about animals. This pome’ was the result:
Androcles acquired a lion – a sentimental story;
Bellerophon had Pegasus to carry him to glory;
Hannibal kept elephants to aid his fighting arm;
And Isis looked to scorpions to guard her against harm;
Llewellyn trusted good Gelert, but wasn’t really certain;
Cleopatra chose an asp to share her final curtain.
But trite as all these legends are, they’re none of them so hackneyed
As that of Robert Bruce and his obstinate arachnid.