The Real Turtle sang this, very slowly, and sadly:—
"We are getting quite important," said the Porker to the Seal,
"For we're 'European Questions,' as a Premier seems to feel.
See the 'unintelligent' Lobster, even he, makes an advance!
Oh, we lead the Politicians of the earth a pretty dance.
Will you, won't you, Yankee Doodle, England, and gay France.
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, let us lead the dance?
"You can really have no notion how delightful it will be,
When they take us up as matters of the High Diplomacee."
But the Seal replied, "They brain us!" and he gave a look askance