A homesick German measle
Said: “I’ll take things in hand!
A journey cross the seas’ll
Show me my fatherland.”
He got himself contracted
By a traveller to Berlin.
But border-guards reacted,
And wouldn’t let him in.
“Halt, Fremde! Show your papers!”
The officer was firm.
Life’s sadness can’t escape us:
A dispatriated germ.