Our laundry was drying in the sunshine

When an animal stole it from the washing line

It took trousers pyjamas, pullovers, socks

Shorts, sheets, pillowslips, cardigans, frocks

Underpants, knickers, dressing gowns, skirts

Baseball caps, woolly hats, tights, scarves and shirts

Was it taken by a tiger, turtle, tortoise, racoon, rat

Elephant, antelope, badger, bull, bat

Hippopotamus, rhinoceros, mongoose, moose, monkey

Hedgehog, hyena, crocodile, donkey

Polar bear, porcupine or pig? No - of course

The animal that stole it was a clothes horse!