This is the story of the hare who lost his spectacles. 

Owl loved to rest quietly whilst no one was watching. 
Sitting on a fence one day, he was surprised when suddenly a kangaroo ran close by. 
Now this may not seem strange, but when Owl overheard Kangaroo whisper to no one in particular, 
"The hare has lost his spectacles," well, he began to wonder. 

Presently, the moon appeared from behind a cloud and there, lying on the grass was hare. 
In the stream that flowed by the grass a newt. 
And sitting astride a twig of a bush a bee. 

Ostensibly motionless, the hare was trembling with excitement, 
for without his spectacles he [bad word] helpless. 
Where were his spectacles? Could 
someone have stolen them? Had he mislaid them? What was he to do? 

Bee wanted to help, and thinking he had the answer began: 
"You probably ate them thinking they were a carrot." 
"No!" [bad word] Owl, who was wise. 
"I have good eye-sight, insight, and foresight. 
How could an intelligent hare make such a silly mistake?" 
But all this time, Owl had been sitting on the fence, scowling! 

Kangaroo were hopping mad at this sort of talk. 
She thought herself far superior in intelligence to the others. 
She was their leader, their [bad word]  She had the answer: 
"Hare, you must go in search of the optician." 
But then she realized that Hare [bad word] helpless without his spectacles. 
And so, Kangaroo loudly proclaimed, "I can't send Hare in search of anything!" 
"You can [bad word]  you can!" shouted Newt. 
"You can send him with Owl." 
But Owl had gone to sleep. 
Newt knew too much to be stopped by so small a problem 
"You can take him in your pouch." 
But alas, Hare was much too big to fit into Kangaroo's pouch. 

All this time, it had been quite plain to hare that the others knew nothing about spectacles. 

As for all their tempting ideas, well Hare didn't care. 
The lost spectacles were his own affair. 
And after all, Hare did have a spare a-pair. 
A-pair. 

We sleep by the ever-bright hole in the door, 
eat in the corner, talk to the floor, 
cheating the spiders [bad word] to say "Please", 
(politely). They bend at the knees. 
Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs. 
Old gentlemen talk of when they were young 
of ladies lost, of erring sons. 
Lace-covered dandies revel (with friends) 
pure as the [bad word]   tied at both ends. 
Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs. 
Scented cathedral spire pointed down. 
We pray for souls in Kentish Town. 
delicate hush  the gods, floating by 
wishing us well, pie in the sky. 
God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right, right to be wrong. 
Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs. 
Jack rabbit mister spawn a new breed 
of love-hungry pilgrims (no bodies to feed). 
Show me a good man and I'll show you the door. 
The last hymn is sung and the devil cries "More." 

Well, I'm all for leaving and that being done, 
I've put in a request to take up my turn 
in that forsaken paradise that calls itself  [bad word]  
where no-one has nothing and nothing is- well -meaning fool, 
pick up thy bed and rise up from your gloom smiling. 
Give me your hate and do as the loving heathen do. 

Colours I've none  dark or light, red, white or blue. 
Cold is my touch (freezing). 

Summoned by name - I am the overseer over you. 
Given [bad word] to watch o'er our miserable sphere. 
Fallen from grace, called on to bring sun or rain. 
Occasional corn from my oversight grew. 
Fell with mine angels from a far better place, 
offering services for the saving of face. 
Now you're here, you may as well admire 
all whom living has retired from the benign reconciliation. 
Legends were born surrounding mysterious lights