the needless alarm
Among the rushes lived a mouse
with a pretty little house
made of rushes tall and high
that to the skies were heard to sigh
while one night while she was sleeping
comes a dog that then was peeping
and had found her out in spite
of her good wall for then his sight
was better than our mouses so
she was obliged to yield to foe
when frightened was the dog just then
at the scratching of a hen
so of he ran and little mouse
was left in safety with her house