{as it looks to archy}[28th May 1967]

[Redbook0:8-9][19670528]{as it looks to archy}[28^th May 1967][Age 16][Extract from external source]

as it looks to archy

ants go on their cheerful way

merrily from day to day

building cities out of sand

and they seem to understand

dwelling therein peacefully

disciplined and orderly

and the much lauded bee contrives

for to fill his thundering hives

with a ranked society

based on work and honesty

and a thousand neat examples

could I cite of insect lives

free from much that tears and tramples

human beings and their wives

even the coral in the ocean

throughout his dim and damp existence

scorns political commotion

and labours with a glad persistence

worthy of large commendations

to erect his naval stations

man the universal simp

follows lagging with a limp

treading on his neighbours toes

the way the little insect goes

in a million years or more

man may learn the simple lore

of how bees are organised

and why ants are civilised

may even hope for to approach

the culture of an average roach

if he is humble and not smug

may emulate the tumble bug

DON MARQUIS

archy’s life of mehitabel