If there's none within when he penetrates through?

Then without much dispatch

He uplifted the latch,

When he felt 'gainst his legs such a terrible poke,

That he staggered with fear,

And had swooned away near,

Ere he saw 'twas a pig who inflicted the stroke;

While a rough Irish laugh on his reverie broke,

Whose possessor appeared to enjoy much the joke,

And cried, "Och, the pig has got out of the door!