Frogs

Frogs, we know, are like the otter:

sometimes on land, sometimes in water.

(The word to use is amphibious,

but today that seems far too serious!)

These beasts have never met a pond

of which they were not very fond:

after they hatch, they live in the drink—

they swim like fish and will not sink!

We call these babes the polliwogs,

and til they graduate as frogs,

they use their gills instead of lungs--

and have not grown those great big tongues;

which help a lot, we shall surmise,

to catch a lunch of tasty flies!

The smaller frogs will make a peep,

while bull frogs have a croak that’s deep;

and unlike you, I think the frog

would say that heaven is a bog!