On A Starving Seal Pup Poem by Francis Duggan

It lay there on the jetty it's bones showing through it's skin
I have not see many animals as malnourished and thin
As the seal pup in Warrnambool on this balmy Spring day
His life may be a brief one it is looking this way
So many Australian fur seals do not outlive the puppy stage
Only the strongest and fittest live to an adult age
In Nature it is survival of the fittest that is how 'tis meant to be
For all of the world's life forms on land as well as sea
The strongest and the fittest their genes will live on
Their descendants the future of their species when the life from them has gone
The hungry seal pup at Warrnambool for to breed may not survive
By December's calendar summer it may not be alive
But where there is life there is hope as some are known to say
And this too applies to the starving seal pup at Warrnambool's Lady Bay.