Across from where he sat

Remarked: "Well, this has got to stop."

Then, snatching up his hat,

And sallying out, began to shout:

"Look here! Come down from that!"

The boastful boy to laugh began,

As laughs a vapid clown,

And cried: "It takes a bigger man

Than you to call me down!

This wall is smooth, this wall is high,