Magizoological Marches
Disclaimer: The animals belong to JKR; some of the rhymes to my beta reader. I am gratefully indebted to both.
A/N: If these 'Songs' sound familiar, (a) you read them last time I put them up on FFN; (b) you are familiar with the march tunes 'The British Grenadiers,' 'The Lancashire Poacher,' and 'Bonnie Dundee'; or (c) you have read Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book." For all or none of the above, enjoy!
The Erumpent's Song
We charged at one another,
our footfalls loudly rang,
But when our heads collided,
our horns went off like – BANG!
We really rather wonder
why we are so few,
But if we hear you snigger,
Watch out! We'll charge at you!
~:~
The Centaur's Song
Those heroes with their noisy jousts,
are fierce and wild – and few;
For when it comes to wisdom,
one body's worse than two.
The learning of the ages,
from star and fire and tree,
We contemplate as sages,
though beast we choose to be.
~:~
The Pegasus's Song
By all my flight feathers, the finest of things
Are the sound of the wind rushing under our wings,
The white clouds below us, the blue of the sky –
The way of the heavens, trod by Pegasii.
So feed us and break us and handle and groom
And give us good riders away from a broom;
Then launch us from firm ground up into the sky,
And speed on your journey astride Pegasii.
~:~
The Demiguise's Song
As me and my companions
were wandering through the snow,
We thought we heard a stranger's voice-
We gently faded so...
For we can shimmer and climb, my lads,
And turn up anywhere,
And given a fright on a mountain height,
We'll vanish into the air.
Good luck to all the Weavers then,
who wish to shear our hair,
Bad luck to all the pelt hunters,
who'll find the mountain bare.
For we can shimmer and climb, my lads,
And turn up anywhere,
And given a fright on a mountain height,
We'll vanish into the air.
~:~
The Hippogriff's Song
We haven't a griffon-y tune of our own,
To help us hippo along,
But every talon's a 'C' played sharp,
(flap-flap-flap as we spread out our wings)
And this is our air-borne song:
Speed! Power! Honour! Pride!
We're creatures deserving respect;
Attend us and Charm us and we will be loyal-
Offend, and what could you expect?
Somebody's owner's forgotten to bow
Off with his head in a trice!
Fix him a stare that will freeze him like ice-
Somebody's legging it now!
