Which in good looks are really superfine.

And on this subject I will give a song,

Which I daresay you all already know,

But anyway it isn’t very long,

Though it was made a hundred years ago,

I guess that mermaids were much plentier then;

Perhaps they’re scared of steamboats and the swell

Which drives the fish as foxes do a hen—

So like the steamers I will now propel.”

THE MERMAID