But this one is a crux from the sole of his foot to the crown of his comical castor.
He looks as big as all out-of-doors, and e'en Bumble was hardly as bumptious.
He'd make my London a Paradise, which is a prospect that's perfectly scrumptious.
But oh! he is big, with the funniest rig; a Titan who, if he should tumble,
Might squelch me as flat as an opera-hat, and make me regret old Bumble.
Noodledom ruled me for many long years; this means, I am told, a new Era;
But bad as a Booby may be as a Boss, what about a colossal Chimæra?
I don't say he's that, but with body of goat, dragon's tail, and the head of a lion,
A creature were hardly more "mixed" than this monster, whose rule for the time I must try on.
A complex, conglomerate, Jack-of-all-Trades! Well, I trust he'll be master of some of them!