The air is cooler and purer the higher

You get—as you've doubtless heard."

So on he chattered with never a stop,

And on and on till you'd think he would drop.

(The post was dumb as your hat.)

But so as the pie could say his say

He didn't care whether it spoke all day;

For thus he observed as he walked away—

"An intelligent creature that."

(Ye second opinion)