With our nags so flash, and our merry men,

We’ll scour the lonely ground.

And if the swells resist our “Stand!”

We’ll squib[72] without a joke;

For I’m snigger’d if we will be trepanned

By the blarneying jaw of a knowing hand,

And thus be lagged[73] to a foreign land,

Or die by an artichoke[74].

But should the traps be on the sly,

For a change we’ll have a crack[75];