Once Rabbi Akiva
and some of his friends
talked all night and forgot
that the seder should end.
All the mice started snoring,
they found it so boring.
The hoot-owls were hooting,
the shooting-stars shooting--
But Rabbi Akiva
kept talking away
till his pupils said, "Rabbi,
it's not yesterday!
You act like the Drush-Drush
who sleeps while it's light,
and talks of the Exodus
all through the night!"
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