And the hands that worked his foreign vest
Long ages ago had gone to rest:
You would have sworn, as you looked on them,
He had fished in the flood—with Ham and Shem.'
Then, again, there is Browning's 'Pied Piper of Hamelin,' a rare old story rarely versified:—
'Rats!
They fought the dogs, and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And eat the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles,