Not everyone in this hospital Is a quack or a fake or a cheat. There's one kind heart - it beats in the chest Of the sweetest girl you could meet. She's neat She's petite, It's divine Marguerite. 'Receptionist' is her title - It's stencilled on all her white hats. She commutes from Southend where she lives with her mum And 25 tortoiseshell cats. That's 'Cos she's bats About saving stray cats. She's kind to all the animals, Like, when a six-months-gone kangaroo Comes in with a hole in her pocket - She sews it up neat - good as new. It's true In this zoo She's one of the few. Like a terrapin injured while bowling, Like a winkle shrunk by the cold, Like eel pie-eyed; like a lion with no pride, She welcomes them all to the fold. She's bold Good as gold, She's a sight to behold. For a snail who arrives very shell-shocked, A collection of pale butterflies, For a glow-worm gone dull, for a soused herring-gull, With each creature she must sympathise. She tries To disguise The tears in her eyes.				There are so many patients to care for     She's touched by each one that she sees,    Like a zebra who's hurt while crossing the road,   Like a thrush with a nasty disease.  Or a tiny peke who fell into a trough Which was brimful of mushy peas. A woodpecker drank too much cider last night Now he can't see the wood for the trees. A mantis lost his religious bent, A man-o-war spouts Portuguese. An aardvark is tripped when jumping the queue At a bus stop in Stockton-on-Tees. A dormouse who's learned how to steal from mousetraps  Has eaten a surfeit of cheese.  A cricket is stumped by a powerful stroke,   A penguin forgets how to sneeze.    Severe diarrhoea caused by bad German beer     Hits a gibbon and six chimpanzees.      An inch-worm is measured at only three fifths.       A jelly-fish shakes with DTs.       A solitary locust arrives with the plague,      But, for all such creatures as these,     Marguerite cares - no matter how sick,    Whatever their worst maladies.   She's sweet,  She's upbeat, She's their own Marguerite.