Stephen Horsfall
Gerard Manley Hopkins rewrites 'Ding Dong Bell'
As tumbled over rim in roundy well
Cat mews: each hung bell’s bow swung goes ding dong:
Who tumbled kitty all the well’s depth along?
Young Johnny Green, the boy-next-door from hell.
Stout lad, Tom Stout, hearing the warning bell,
Rushed then. What then? Reached the green ferns among
And dripping stones, and, with a merry song
Upon his lips, pulled pussy out, pell-mell.
Clipped round the ear for a nuisance he’s to mend,
Has Johnny learnt his lesson? Wild or tame,
Cats don’t go well in wells: instead, befriend
A fleet-foot feline. All good folk exclaim
When cats fall, gall themselves at a well’s end,
Crying ‘What obnoxious flaming brat’s to blame?’
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