They thrill through his whiskers and beard:

Like a teetotum seeming to spin him,

With sneers never hitherto sneered.

"Avengement," they cry, "on our Foelet!

Let the Manikin weep for our wrongs!

Let us drench him from toplet to toelet

With nursery songs!

"He shall muse upon Hey! Diddle! Diddle!

On the Cow that surmounted the Moon!

He shall rave of the Cat and the Fiddle,