He could never have walked in that storm;
They jest scooped down and toted him
To whar it was safe and warm.
And I think that saving a little child,
And bringing him to his own,
Is a derned sight better business
Then loafing around The Throne.
Joaquin Miller, whose true name was Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, was called the Poet of the Sierras.
He seldom wrote in humorous vein, but some of his verse must fall into that category.