Though of wine and cake partaking;
We escorted him home from the scene of dread,
While his knees were awfully shaking.
"Slowly and sadly we marched him down,
From the first to the lowermost storey;
And we never have heard or seen the poor man
Whom we left alone in his glory."
These lines appeared in Notes and Queries June 27, 1868, and are said to have been written by Thomas Hood.