Saw the gold and burnish on them,

Bawled, "What are those? I say, mother!"

And the fuddled Norah answered,

"Once a cricketer, when angry,

Seized his ball, and bowling, threw it

Up against the shop times threefold,

Right against the shop he threw it;

'Tis its tri-ghost that you see there."

Saw the gallows near the prison,

In the morning sky, the gallows;