The puppies are barking! How so much
The little dog around you!
Badger, Pug, Poodle, Spiz, Icelandic and Greyhound
Attack and run along!
What growling, Gauen, grumbling, oh and woe
Howl and ding and ding!
The puppies may bark! go
You mastiff, your gait.
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
(1719-1803)
The original copy of the poem to Lessing:
Source:
Neuer deutscher Hausschatz für Freunde der Künste und Wissenschaften, 2. Theil, Prag, 1866