A reputation for pluck and stay!"

Amidst the reeds the river ran;

Behind them floated a Grand Old Swan,

And loudly did lament

The better deeds of a better day;

Ever the gray Canoeist went on,

Making his memos. as he went.

II.

"My foes are piqued, I must suppose,

But cannot see their way to a 'Cry.'"