The poem written by Marhoom Yaqoob ibn Aiyyoub, Al Aiyyoubi, Aal Sultaniyyah, May Allah illumine his grave (in 1968). Rats were a menace in his library and he feared that the Quran, Hadith and other religious books would be defiled and damaged. Another of his brothers Salim ibn Aiyyoub loved cats so he suggested Yaqoob get one, and it worked. The poem was lost (1971) and only the first paragraph was saved by his brother Idries Al Khidr, (the famous writer of Pure Air and Fire, the Arabian Horse book). Idries, busy as he always is, assigned another brother Yusuf to complete the poem (2008).

 The Nosy Rats of Mouseville Town
Once went to bell a cat
Who sat around, its face a frown
On a cosy little mat.

" 'taint a job for a clumsy mouse,"
Squeaked the tallest rodent,
"Whose bungling will the cat arouse."
"Hear, hear!" cried all present.

At last they chose a deaf mute,
Bright of eyes and bantamweight,
Fighting fit and resolute:
With string and bell its freight.

The mice did watch the chosen one
Pussyfooting with the bell,
"Huddle close, 'eez all but done!"
Clang-a-ding! all ran pell-mell!

Hoping to dash into the hole
Our deaf mute he did try,
Not mouse, nor rat---he was a mole
To Mouseville Town he bid goodbye.

[Yaqoob (1969) Yusuf (2008)]