The Tale of a Mouse

A mouse fell in love with an elephant

An elephant wide and tall

On the whole he was large for an elephant

While the mouse for a mouse was small

But the love of the mouse was as big as a house

And she cried to the midnight sky

"I'm in love with him so, I gotta let him know or die"

So she started to be being seen around

In places where elephants go

With the air of a mouse that has been around

With a nod and a "Hiya, Joe"

But she couldn't impart that the love in her heart

It was more than her heart could bear

And the elephant thought, "She's a very friendly sort

But square"

"Give him up," said her friends, "Give him up and forget"

"It'll never work out," said her aunt

"Oh, I know," said the mouse, "And I know that I should

And I would if I could, but I can't"

But at last it became so unbearable

She went very far away

For she knew that her love was unsharable

And she hoped she'd forget one day

Well, she did in the end, her heart seemed to mend

And the past, well, the past was dead

She's no longer in love with an elephant, of course

But she's fallen for a horse instead