The Frog

Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As 'Slimy skin', or 'Polly-wog',
Or likewise 'Ugly James'.
Or Gap-a-grin', or 'Toad-gone-wrong',
Or 'Billy-Bandy-knees':

The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.
No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).

    Hilaire Belloc