Each splendor of final parade!

How many are left, we may wonder,

Heart-mournful for that which befell?

How many would wish back the blunder

"When the Cat has got into the Well!

Nay, more; if with infinite bother

And peril, poor Puss is got out,

Somehow, one boy seems famous as t' other,

John Green is as big as John Stout!

See, now! let me tell you a story