And I live at a place called the Vatican.”

Rum-ti-iddi-ti-ti.

Her language his wits did bereave,

She proceeded to carney and gabble on,

And at last (which you’d hardly believe)

He smirked at the Lady of Babylon.

Says he, “I should get in a scrape,

Could my late and respectable Sire hark;

He’d frown should a Wilberforce ape

A sleek Ultramontanist hierarch.”