What are your favourite animals?
I’m not a fan of keeping pets
Prefer my animals free.
If I had to choose one
Perhaps it’s deer for me.
The great stag is magnificent
With his imposing horns.
While it is the sweetest sight
To see a baby fawn.
It’s an awesome site to see
Two deer locking horns.
Or catch a site of several score
As they flock across a road.
We’re lucky that around us
There’s many a great Deer Park
The Great Park near at Windsor,
Richmond, Bushy Parks
Or else in the New Forest
Which isn’t very far.
The Parks were made for hunting
Where Royalty chased the deer
So deer have shaped the landscape
The countryside round here.
It cheers me up to see them.
Although they must be managed
They live in safety now.
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