Ye book of Copperheads

by Charles Godfrey Leland; H. P. Leland

There once was an old party-Wall, quite cracked and just ready to fall;

The Copperheads came and completed its shame

By sticking their Bills on this Wall.

[Original]

There once was a bottle of Porter, which the Copperheads thought was all water;

But when the cork popped, the Copperheads dropped,

And were stunned by the vim of the Porter!