Can say while briny tear-drops start,

I’d rather wed a crooked stick

Than never wed no stick at all.

Rather than laughed at be as of yore

I’d rather laugh myself no more.

I’d rather go half-clad and starved

And mops and dish-cloths madly wave

Than have the words B Bobbit carved

On headstone rising o’er my grave

Proud thought, now when that stun is risen,