“We’ll roast her and eat her,
The boat’s coming over the bay.”
Said Peter to Paul,
“We will gobble them all,
And the captain is sailing away!”
“Now, ’fore we fairly get into the Gulf,”
Said Saltonstall, “and fall into its tide,
Which swallows up so many like a wolf,
I’ll sing a song about a place outside,
Where a thing once took place which was a wonder—