On Wild Rabbits Poem by Francis Duggan

That wild rabbits are nature's survivors there can be no denying
As a boy in Ireland in the nineteen fifties i see thousands of them dying
of human introduced myxomatosis a painful and fatal disease
That spreads from rabbit to rabbit in disease carrying fleas
Myxomatosis was introduced to wild rabbits in Countries Worldwide
But no matter how hard human beings tried
For to make them extinct the rabbits did survive
Due to their breeding habits and their sexual drive
And despite the introduction of clavixal virus and poisoning rabbits as a species refuse to die
To human power to exterminate they have given the lie.