Muscled, black with steel-green eye
swishing through the rye grass
with thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie
Tail balancing at half-mast
And the mouse police never sleeps ---
lying in the cherry tree
Savage bed foot-warmer of purest feline ancestry
Look out, little furry folk!
He's the all-night working cat
Eats but one in every ten ---
leaves the others on the mat
And the mouse police never sleeps ---
waiting by the cellar door
Window-box town crier;
birth and death registrar
With claws that rake a furrow red ---
licensed to multilate
From warm milk on a lazy day
to dawn patrol on hungry hate
No, the mouse police never sleeps ---
climbing on the ivy
Windy roof-top weathercock
Warm-blooded night on a cold tile