But the sooner they’re done with the better ’tis said,

Or good-bye to the Church and its teaching.


Three Fishers.

Three fishers went fishing out into the sea

With bottles well filled with the regular bait:

They burned in the sun and told stories with glee

And caught one sea-robin, a crab and a skate;

But, as they were told, on the previous day,

More fishes were caught than were carried away,