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As feral as the day is long<\/span><\/p>\n the need is ours as well<\/p>\n as there’s for we must honour<\/p>\n not make our world their hell<\/p>\n <\/p>\n they live in forests surely<\/p>\n they have for many a year<\/p>\n hunted by the imperious toff’s of old<\/p>\n who raised their fear<\/p>\n <\/p>\n to the dog and vixen sending<\/p>\n terror through the dens<\/p>\n wily, well they have to be<\/p>\n sure they kill some hens<\/p>\n <\/p>\n but really they are wild fox boys<\/p>\n their lives committed to<\/p>\n the countryside<\/p>\n and being denied<\/p>\n so much for some of you<\/p>\n <\/p>\n have took to building<\/p>\n mansions in the wooded glades<\/p>\n where they<\/p>\n have lived for many centuries<\/p>\n and until you came, did play<\/p>\n <\/p>\n in holly laden hollows<\/p>\n in rock scapes<\/p>\n they<\/p>\n hunted over yonder and in \u00a0hole<\/p>\n with other feral souls<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n then you took to their way of life<\/p>\n with your bins overflowing<\/p>\n with bread strewn out along the grass<\/p>\n the fox of course all knowing<\/p>\n <\/p>\n maybe some hens you had a few<\/p>\n and foxy might come by<\/p>\n might take out a few bantams<\/p>\n might gain your wrath, but I<\/p>\n <\/p>\n must tell you now the vixen<\/p>\n she has family she must feed<\/p>\n its clear she may be in your garden<\/p>\n and just may succeed<\/p>\n <\/p>\n in getting through your skylight<\/p>\n or in your larder store<\/p>\n or competing with the refuse men<\/p>\n where its best dear’s you ignore<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the wily soul<\/p>\n be blessed for they<\/p>\n frequent the places where<\/p>\n the heavenly spirits and the faerie folk<\/p>\n are prepared to share<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the feral breed<\/p>\n are priceless in our world of urban poor<\/p>\n where the concrete tongues<\/p>\n now lick the night<\/p>\n like ne’r before<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the city dwellers arses<\/p>\n may come against them they<\/p>\n might talk of shooting foxes<\/p>\n making our ferals pay<\/p>\n <\/p>\n for being where creation<\/p>\n put them<\/p>\n for displaying their brush of red<\/p>\n for taking on the tally ho<\/p>\n the hounds \u00a0the toffs, the dead<\/p>\n <\/p>\n for all the human vagaries<\/p>\n the evil minds of men<\/p>\n who ride their buxom fillies<\/p>\n and hope the day comes when<\/p>\n <\/p>\n they can, hunt fox and hare again<\/p>\n and tear though \u00a0thickets fast<\/span><\/p>\n rattle down the country paths<\/p>\n and just to gallop passed<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n your mansion ,through your garden<\/p>\n cut and chase and run<\/p>\n tear up your lawns<\/p>\n with horse shoe dawns<\/p>\n as they have always done<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As feral as the day is long the need is ours as well as there’s for we must honour not make our world their hell they live in forests surely they have for many a year hunted by … Continue reading