BURR (or Brrrrr)

The Girton oak has developed a burr

Under the bark it is seen and heard

Rolling Rs and layering up—

Nothing else works for the College bird.

The burr-sore want some fast relief:

Heat-treatment is the only cure;

Everyone should give the bursar grief—

Have protests along her (warm) corridor.

Every Girtonian burrs like a Scot,

At every moment the burring grows,

Thrushes migrate where the weather’s hot,

Only we are left in its throes,

Now, bursar, now, let us warm our toes.