It is here
that I would like to quote
a few words
from Lepidote,
the quotable stoat,
from the time of Aesop,
when all was wrote by voice,
as spoken by the animals,
before they decided
that we never listened anyway.
.
Lepidote, by choice,
spoke in a highly refined voice,
like a lord;
but with a degree of lethargy,
as if bored.
.
The words of his,
of which I speak,
are, ‘Man should learn
to protect the meek,
and cease the harm,
he often does,
before extinction
comes to us.’
.
This stoat was wise,
and in his eyes
the wisdom shone –
an Oxford Don
of the animal kind,
such was his mind.
Graeme Sandford 