And says I he must be waiting for a taste of human gore.

This I said, and nothing more.

While in the gutter lying, I saw that bull go flying

Along the road, at such a speed he’d never gone before.

So I let him go and curs’d him, and prayed the fates might burst him,

For my bicycle he’d humbugged, and he’d made me “awful” sore,

And I felt he’d quite undone me, but he’d never do so more.

And I muttered nevermore.

I collected up the ruins of that nasty mad bull’s doin’s,

And straightway did I take them unto my cottage-door.