So closing his heart the Judge rode on
And Maudie was left in the field alone.
But the lawyers smiled that afternoon
When they heard him lustily a-choo-in.
And the young girl sneezed beside the well
Till the rain on the unraked clover fell.
He wedded a wife of richest dower
With an aquiline beak of ten Roman power,
And oft when the wine in his nose was red
And he knew the old woman was safe in bed,