The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 5 (September 1, 1932)
Floundering in Mystery
Floundering in Mystery.
ideThe flat and flexile little flounder,
Is such a jolly little bounder;
Although it mucks about in mud,
The flounder's not a perfect dud.
It often grows quite full and fat,
Although its life is somewhat flat.
It's quite content to rest its head
Upon the ocean's oozy bed;
And this because it never strives,
To know how flounders end their lives.
It never would so happy be
So deep beneath the briny sea,
If someone told the flounder that
A flounder's future's fried in fat.
Its ignorance is bliss, and so
It lives quite happily below
The sea, and quietly chews the cud,
With one eye buried in the mud.