In his check handkerchief,

"That symposium's career's

Been regrettably brief,

For it went all its pile upon crumpets and busted on gunpowder leaf!"

Then we tucked up the sleeves

Of our shirts (that were biled),

Which the reader perceives

That our feelings were riled,

And we went for that man till his mother had doubted the traits of her child.

Which emotions like these