When the maid is stirring batter.

O’er the music comes a change,

Every tone is wild and strange;

Listen to the lofty tumbling,

Hear the mumbling, fumbling, jumbling,

Like the rumbling and the grumbling

Of the thunder from its slumbering

Just awaking. Now it’s taking

To the quaking, like a fever-and-ague shaking;

Heads are aching, something’s breaking—