Still did the people clamour for a show;
So was it settled there should be forthwith
A pageant such as Coventry did love.
Whence came it that, whilst yet the sunny moon
Of roses showed her crescent horn; the day
Fix'd for the pageant dawn'd on Coventry;
And Sanger—he of circus fame—arose
Betimes; for much was on his mind. Perchance
An elephant had shed its trunk; perchance
Some giant camel had "the hump" too much;