A goodly savor, both the drumstick bones,
And that which henceforth took the appropriate name
O' the Merry-thought, in memory of the fact
That to keep wide awake is man's best dream.
So,—as was said once of Thucydides
And his sole joke, "The lion, lo, hath laughed!"—
Just so, the Governor and all that 's great
I' the city never meant that Innocence
Should quite starve while Authority sat at meat;
They meant to fling a bone at banquet's end: