“In shooing flies or hauling freight
It’s wiser to cooperate,
For better jobs are sooner done
If two take hold and work as one.

Now, that’s a truth all horses know,
They learned it centuries ago.
When days are hot, and flies are thick
Cooperation does the trick.

One tail, on duty at the rear,
Can’t reach the fly behind the ear,
But two tails, if arranged with craft,
Give full protection, fore and aft.

Though fools pursue a lonely course,
Let wise men emulate the horse.
Two make a burden half as great:
Use horse sense and cooperate!