One over, one beginning;
“God Save the Queen’s” collapse we knew
Was “Kitty Clover’s” inning.
How startlingly the bow behaved—
Curveted, jerked, and bounded—
The while our gracious queen was saved,
And knavish tricks confounded!
And oh! the helpless, hopeless woe,
Brimful and running over,
In (very slow) the o—o—oh