This line popped up in my head after seeing some articles about the annual presidential pardon of a turkey for Thanksgiving.

I am fairly sure this is the full correct line, although I could be off by a couple of words. Googling the phrase or parts of it hasn't yielded anything useful.

It's something I read as a kid, so probably late 80s/early 90s for me. It was some kind of poem in something kids would read, though not necessarily a book of poetry -- might have been embedded in a novel or something. I thought at first it was from one of the poems that came up in Calvin & Hobbes from time to time, but I searched various C&H archives and didn't see it.

Have almost no recollection of what the poem was actually about, except that it involved some upcoming event so epic -- a party, or a caper of some sort -- that such a pardon ahead of time would be relevant.

Does this ring a bell to anyone else? Now that it has emerged from the dark recesses of my brain, it's driving me nuts.