By his power of observation
On a frog’s legs’ oscillation
Should find how by chemic ways
Electric currents we can raise?
To call him ‘great’ is no flattery;
He set us on the wondrous battery.
This simple little frog, Heigh Ho!
The frog who would a-wooing go;
Thy part in electricity
Is unmatched eccentricity.
This new discovered fact, of course,
Leads to the Telegraph of Morse,
The Motor and Electric Light
The Telephone and more in sight.
IN QUEEN VICTORIA’S PALMY DAYS.
Ireland
OF Ireland but a word or two.
Celts were her people and they knew