rabbits

Ancestral lines are often hard to trace
Forebears doth stretch at times to days of yore
But rabbit incest of a rapid pace
Allows us now to honour four

Progenitors of such a sprawling brood
All in the Garden of Mt Eden born
Mayhaps they tasted a forbidden food
And from on high their sin did draw great scorn

For now these precious souls have hopped their last
Cruel verdicts made to seal them a grim fate
So now is time to fly the flags half-mast
The rabbits’ lease hath all too short a date