With an improving book I go to bed (as P. G. Wodehouse said) And two improving dachshunds on my pillow (as Wodehouse almost said) They then begin their journey at my head Wriggling down to my feet and back again
They slurple messily from my bedside glass And crumple up my copy of Hercule Poirot Neither slows: they lick my nose, they tickle my toes And will they finally doze? Nobody knows!
But
When comes the midnight moon, then all in a cuddly heap Their little doggie noses snuffle at last in sleep