Souric and Mouric

Souric and Mouric,

white rat and black mouse,

came to the cupboard

to teach the spider

how to weave a beautiful sheet

of web on the loom.

Send it to Paris, Quimper, Nantes -

it will sell well!

Save your pennies

and buy a field,

with apple trees for the season

and three fine cows,

and a bull for stud.

Sing, frogs,

for night is coming.

We hear them clearly at night,

toads and frogs.

Listen, my merle

and my talking magpie.

Listen all the day long,

and you will learn to sing.