Such a lovely funny little rhyme! Especially the word: cowpat! I'm so familar to the countryside landscape that I can't help recalling an ancient Chinese poem about cowpat written by Su Shi who may be one of the most famous poets in Song dynasty.

半醒半醉问诸黎，竹刺藤梢步步迷。
但寻牛矢觅归路，家在牛栏西复西。
Half drunk, half sober, after I ask my way to the four Lis,
Bamboo spikes and rattan creepers tangle before me.
I can but follow the way where cow turds are spread,
And find my house farther west of cattle shed.

Cowpat is the only way back home when poet was drunk. Here Li(s) is the name of a minority in South China. This poem was written when the poet was banished from the imperial city to the remote Hainan island(the southmost part of China) where Li nationality inhibated in his time.