Rich banners waved behind ’em,

While on their backs, to mind ’em,

Postilion crickets chirruped them, all chirping loud and sweet.

“Ghost of the Cape I warn you of, for he is bottle-blue.

We split his Table Mountain. He gibbered and he flew.

The bulls straight showed disfeature

With gazing on the creature,

Stampeding in their harness when I gave the view-halloo.

“Though wrecked on Egypt’s obelisks, disaster I defied,

And harnessed Sphinx, the emperor’s gift, to tow an ark as wide