The Orkeldor, et al.

Along the winding archburr branch the slinking morf doth slide,
And he is oh, so beautiful, in texture and in hide.
His skin is smooth, his color fine, of odor he is sweet;
He’s a lovely sight to see no matter where you meet.

You may like to take one home and keep it as a pet,
But, though they’re awfully beautiful, no one has caught one yet.
The slinking morf is slippery, and moves quite quickly too,
So when you try to catch one he’ll get away from you.

I’ve heard that even Orkeldor has trouble catching morf,
And when he finally catches one it slides along the turf.
The it leaves the Orkeldor a-slipping on it’s slime,
And Orkeldor his lunch doth miss, (for him it’s the first time).

* * *

The sha-sha trees were swaying in the gently blowing breeze
As Orkeldor was lurking near some innocent wah-lah babes.
No thump-thump was in sight that day to warn of doom so near,
But at last the wah-lah babes were saved by a big, black, grizzly bear.

The bear came crashing through the woods running like a bunny,
With bees quite close in hot pursuit. He’d been stealing from their honey!
Well, the Orkeldor does not like bears when they are charging, son;
So the Orkeldor himself took off, and boy, how he did run!

A commotion quite was raised that day in the little sha-sha glade,
For it isn’t every single day that an Orkeldor runs away.
The wah-lah babes just stayed and played among those sha-sha trees,
And I suppose they’re there today with that bunch of angry bees.

* * *

One day an evil man did come to Darkbur Valley town.
He swore by all the bad in him to tear that village down.
He shot the judge and hanged the mayor and terrorized the place,
Until he slipped on morf slime and fell right on his face.

Then after that the thump-thumps started all a-twitching;
But he knew not what that meant, and threatened all a licking.
Every man in the town was quickly seeking safety
(From the terror of the Orkeldor, not from some old meany).

The thump-thumps proved again how accurate they are
At sensing coming Orkeldor, whether near or far.
They warned the village people, and so from that place they’d beaten,
But the evil man was not from there, that’s why he was eaten.