IV
Off, then, went the boat, at first very pleasantly,
Smoothly, and so forth; but after a while
It swayed and it swagged this and that way, and presently
Chest after chest, and pile after pile,
Of the Little Folks’ goods began tossing and rolling,
And pitching like fun, beyond Fairy controlling!
O Mab! if the hubbub were great before,
It was now some two or three million times more;
Crash! went the wee crocks, and the clocks, and the locks