Whose names are inscribed in that golden book.

'Oh! who shall we get to sing to "the Beast"?

To sing to the Beast a deathless song?'—

'Till they came to Tupper, the great High Priest—

Proverbially the worst of the throng.

And their hearts exulted

A moment or two:—

'His were the queerest,

But we've promised the dearest,

Tupper won't do!'