Hare wooing rabbit

‘It is there! Very much there!

Go and catch the mare

before she comes to glare’.

[ a hare was told]

‘How can you dare

come and at me stare?

You can’t get me bare’.

[a rabbit retorted]

‘No hunter can hear

the consent of a hare

before he goes to snare’.

‘No hunter is held dear,

I am a hare neither.

I shall drive you thither’.

‘If I were not a hunter,

will come some hunter,

who will, you the whole, plunder’.

‘I shall put across a barrier,

will soon seek some warrior

in whose arm to slither.’

‘Then why not am I that lad?

I shall make you glad

and serve you salad.’

No, you are a nerd;

your motive is absurd.

I can’t be assured.’

The she-rabbit fled the he-hare.

25.12.2000, Pmdi