I will recount each infant’s fate—”

“Now, out upon thy face.

“‘Ten little niggers!’ ’Tis too late

That well-worn tale to try,”

I cried, and on his hoary pate

Full lustily fell I.

I smote that antient missionere—

I smote him swift and sore,

I smote his glittering nose and ear

Full twenty times and more.