“What have you done with him who came this morning,

And wanted me to buy a lightning-rod?”

“He sleeps beneath the Neva, as a warning

To others like him, not as yet in quod.”

“The girl who bored us for a contribution

To send her blessed clergyman afar?”

“She’s strangled by the Seventh Resolution:

Bogu Tsarachnie! God protect the Tsar!”

“And where is he who gave us the conniptions,

That cheeky man from the United States,