“Get up—do, Gaffer! You are the very man

We have been long, long, longing to see.”

The Ferryman rises, growling and grumbling,

And goes fum-fumbling, and stumbling—and tumbling

Over the wares in his way to the door;

But he sees no more

Than he saw before,

Till a voice is heard—“O Ferryman, dear!

Here we are waiting, all of us, here!

We are a wee, wee colony, we,