The animals went in two by two,

But some came out by scores.

For little ones born inside the Ark

Came also through its doors.

The rabbits, the rats, the mice, and

cats Had multiplied indeed.

Cooped up in the hulk for ten long months,

What else to do but breed?

For every two beasts that first went in,

There came out twenty-three:

An average, of course, for all the pairs

In that menagerie.

But some of the beasts, the elephants

And other mammals too,

Came out of the Ark us they'd gone in

Still two by two by two..

The rest of the horde, a seething

mob, Three hundred pairs all told,

Had bred in the Ark and so came forth

Increased just fifteen-fold.

Imagine that scene on Ararat For Noah

and all his kin

As the animals famed across the land!

How many beasts went in?