And swears amid the heather does our Jack.

(A man would swear who watched both blood and bucket,

One dripping down his forehead, t' other fled

Clinkety-tinkle, to the stones below,

A good half-hour's trudge to get it back.)

Jack, therefore, as I said, exploded straight

In brimstone-flavored language. You, of course,

Maintain he bore it calmly—not a bit.

A good bucolic curse that rent the cliffs

And frightened for a moment quaking Jill