They told their tales of wreck and wrong,

Of shame and lust and fraud,

They backed their toughest statements with

The Brimstone of the Lord,

And crackling oaths went to and fro

Across the fist-banged board.

And there was Hans the blue-eyed Dane,

Bull-throated, bare of arm,

Who carried on his hairy chest

The maid Ultruda's charm—