“But what good came of it at last,”
Quoth simple Mr. Hume.
“Why, that I cannot tell,” said he,
“But ’twas a famous pageantry.”
Mr. Barnum’s Experience of Travelling in England.
The way was short, the wind was cold,
The voyage on Mr. B. had told;
His yielding knees, his tottering gait,
Showed what had lately been his fate;