But finding soon how placidly Log rested

Prone in the pool with mighty little motion,

Of danger they abandoned the wild notion,

Finding it easy for a Frog to jog

On with a kind King Log.

But in the fulness of the time, there came

A would-be monarch—Legion his fit name;

A Plebs-appointed Autocrat, Stork-throated,

Goggle-eyed, Paul-Pry-coated;

A poking, peering, pompous, petty creature,