Of nasal triumph and the drumming foot.

The mother thus bereav'd, such comfort gets

As in the cudgel lies, and joins too soon

Her infant sped. Again the nasal song

Shrills, and the blood-stained tabernacle shakes

With heels triumphant tapping. All who come—

Many there are who come—learn soon or late

The flavour of the cudgel. At the end

All human powers defied, the hangman trick'd

By childlike wile, and hois'd with his own halter,