How “Noah and all his creeping things
Went up into the Ark.”
Sir Nicholas grinned and switched his tail
With joy and admiration;
For he thought of his daughter Victory,
And his darling babe Taxation,
He saw General Gascoigne’s burning face,
Which put him in consternation:
So he hied to his lake, for, by a slight mistake
He thought ’twas a general conflagration.