The Ambitious Mouse
Reading edition
If all the world were candy And the sky were frosted cake, Oh, it would be a splendid job For a mouse to undertake! To eat a path of sweetmeats Through candy forest aisles— Explore the land of Pepper-mint Stretched out for miles and miles. To gobble up a cloudlet, A little cup-cake star, To swim a lake of liquid sweet With shores of chocolate bar. But, best of all the eating, Would be the toothsome fat, Triumphant hour of mouse-desire, To eat a candy cat!