The Fairy Godmother-in-law

by Oliver Herford

Being an epistle to Paul. From Temperance

It comes! The monster rearing high,

Against the lurid western sky,

Its horrid, hissing Hydrant Heads,

While o’er the shuddering land it sheds

A dreary pall of waste and woe

And chilling streams of H₂O.

Now saints defend us, one and all,

And most especially Saint Paul,

Thou patron saint of Honest Fighting