What news is this falls on my ear?
What next will to my sight appear?
My brain doth whirl, my heart doth quake—
Oh, that egregious mistake!
“Too bad! too bad!!” I hear them cry,
“You might have seen with half an eye!
Strange! passing strange!! how could you make
So plain, so blunderous a mistake!”
Ah! where it happened, when and how,
This way or that, no matter now;