I love the inoffensive frog...

By Robert Fuller Murray

I love the inoffensive frog,

‘ A little child, a limber elf,’

With health and spirits all agog,

He does the long jump in a bog

Or teaches men to swim and dive.

If he should be cut up alive,

Should I not be cut up myself?

So I intend to be straightway

An Anti-Vivisectionist;

I'll read Miss Cobbe five hours a day

And watch the little frogs at play,

With no desire to see their hearts

At work, or other inward parts,

If other inward parts exist.