I do not wish to at-tri-bute

Importance to the common Coot,

Or mud-hen, whom most persons scorn,

Because she chanced to be "Earth-born".

The small Australian Bandicoots

Are said to spring from Kanga-roots,

Which roots, as you of course foresee,

Are those of their ancestral tree,

The motto of which vegetable

Is just "O possum"^*(I am able).

^*The Bandicoot and Kangaroo,

As well as the Opossum too,

Are relatives because all three

Belong to the same family.