Forbear to touch that holy one—
The Apostle Hiram Higginson.'
'Touch him,' said I, 'for half a pin
I'd flay and quarter him and skin!
Waal may he look so white and skeer'd
For of his doings I have heerd;
Five wives he hev already done,
And him—not half the man for one!'
And then I stoop'd and took a peep
At what they'd studied at so deep,