Expelled this old saturnine Peter.

There was a sharp lawyer, one P-,

Whose thoughts never got through his still lips;

And all he would say was "ah!" "h'm!" "oh!" and "ay

This pauciloquent person named P-.

There was a neat sarpent—a Coiler—

True son of the ancient Beguiler;

Who told such a whopper, he burst out his copper,

And frightfully fractured his biler.

It's a full-blooded Copperhead Diddle!"