At last, thinks I, 'tis German;

And I'll try it with some beer!

The landlord asked what bothered me so,

And at once he made it clear.

It's half-and-half, the gentleman means;

Don't you see he talks of score?

That's the bit of memorandum

That we chalk behind the door.

Semi-definite's outlandish;

But I see, in half a squint,