“Of what was once, as you all know,
A happy familee!
Without a care we leapt and danced
All in the merry sea!”
“Alack! the cruel fisherman,
He caught them all but me;
The pris’ner clapped her hands and yelled—
I heard her—‘Shrimps for tea!’
And then went home and ate them all
As fast as fast could be.”