Feet straightened out, some gay French lady

Is caught up from life's light and motion,

And dropped into death's silent ocean!

II

—Up jumped Tokay on our table,

Like a pygmy castle-warder,

Dwarfish to see, but stout and able,

Arms and accoutrements all in order;

And fierce he looked North, then, wheeling South,

Blew with his bugle a challenge to Drouth,