The maid with the leisurely way.
Then Magella presented the Mount of Tusong,
And Jaered gave the maiden the valley of Hong,
And ev’ry unmarried man sought the maid’s hand,
Until she grew rich in both cattle and land,
For she twenty years longer turned lovers away,
In the Ante-Deluvian Day.
But when Noah appeared, and ’twas well understood
He was building an ark, as he looked for a flood,
She married him when, at one hundred and ten,