on the beach,
With his mouth full of pebbles, rehears-
ing a speech—
Till the shell-fish and sea-gulls pro-
nounced him a bore,
And the sea met his gravest remarks
with a roar.
In fact, if you ever learnt Greek, you 'll confess
That it's hardly the right kind of tongue to impress
An intelligent lobster or well-inform'd crab,