As mad as twenty blooded colts;

And out into the street I pass,

As mad as two-year-olds at grass,

A naked madman waving grand

A blazing lamp in either hand.

I yelled like twenty drunken sailors,

'The devil's come among the tailors.'

A blaze of flame behind me streamed,

And then I clashed the lamps and screamed

'I'm Satan, newly come from hell.'