Hounds’ Calls

She’s big and bold and loves to run,

That bay I bought last fall;

Her name’s Aggravation

But it’s no indication

For she loves to hear hounds call.

She earned her name by kicking

And cribbing a hole in her stall;

But when it’s “Gone away!”

She’ll run all day

For she loves to hear hounds call.

She never fell all last season,

Not even at Gragard’s big wall;

She jumps like a deer

And pricks up her ears

Whenever she hears hounds call.

Perhaps there’s no real difference

‘Tween her and me at all:

We’re both the same

Because we’re game

And love to hear hounds call.