Then Alec heard the hiss arise
Among the “friends” he used to prize.
Even the Jingo gags they guyed
And H. B. Farnie did deride.
A most unequal muse
Had Audran stooped to choose.
Then Alexander, great and good,
Began his teeth to grate—
Galling, galling, galling, galling,
Galling was his sorry state,