Rats Transfiguring

Oh, that sinking ship!

Surviving cold and stormy seas

Flotsam, clinging on

And one day will hitch

An amazing ride through space

To brave new, desperate worlds 

Just like our forebears

Scrabbling round the feet of giants

Took the human path

So they already

Skipping past the prototype 

Tenaciously begin

The night climb up the ropes

Onto the welcoming ship,

The plenteous hold