“Or you are abominably wicked;
You are a toad.”
And after I had thought of it,
I said, “I will, then, be a toad.”
Charles Battell Loomis was a favorably known writer of humorous jingles, and he wielded a facile pen in parody.
JACK AND JILL
(As Austin Dobson might have written it)
Their pail they must fill
In a crystalline springlet,
Brave Jack and fair Jill.