In my post on DailyDwelling.com today, I referred to reading The Everyman’s Anthology of Poetry for Children to my kids. I had to laugh when I found this poem while reading—it is called “The Drunkard and the Pig”:
It was early last December,
As near as I remember,
I was walking down the street in tipsy pride;
No one was I disturbing
As I lay down by the kerbing,
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.
As I lay there in the gutter
Thinking thoughts I shall not utter,
A lady passing by was heard to say:
“You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses.”
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
I saw the poem and instantly remembered where I had heard it—I heard it sung by the New Christy Minstrels when I was little.