Though we searched ourselves for a clew;

But we drank to his health, and the last to drink,

Was Dangerous Dan McGrew.

There are men that somehow just grip your eyes

And hold them hard like a spell,

And such was he for he looked to me

Like a man who had lived in hell.

With a face most hair, and a glassy stare

Like a dog whose day is done

As he watered the green stuff in his glass