On a beautiful day in the country

In England's green and pleasant land

The humans are out in their redcoats

The humans, the horses, the hounds..

I will have to run from this cover

To the open and out of the shrubs

It's the only way I can think of

Of saving the life of my cubs.

The sound of the horn in the distance

But the baying of hounds getting near

On a beautiful day in the country

This is the day that I feared.

I've given the race of my life

But there's nowhere for me left to run

I do hope the humans in redcoats

Can say "We have had such fun".

The hounds are now upon me

My heart's given out, I am caught

On a beautiful day in the country

My death to the humans in redcoats is sport!

R Berry, Cowleaze, Chinnor