O stupid sailors that didn't know!

Was it a dogfish struck the spark

From your sea-green eyes with the quaint remark

That you were sailing upon a bark?

Millions of happy pussies fall

Into oblivion; still you call

From the top of your ancient cater-wall,

Call on the centuries to concur

In praise of Tabby the Mariner,

Who discovered the Catskills, named for her.