For he 'wolfs' the common 'murphy.'
The Solanum tuberosum.
(Thus the savans named the tater!")
Should you ask me if the Beetle
Were at all like other beetles—
Like the 'chafer, for example,
Him whom boys impale on pin-point—
I should straight reply in this wise:
"He, when young, is like the insect
Whose abode is always burning,