He’s dead!—’tis sad, but true;

Ah, many were the funny tricks

That Tricksy was wont to do:

He’d rush upon a dozing frog

That blinked beside a mossy log,

And wildly glare and bark at it,

And nearly put it in a fit.

Then calmly Tricksy would walk away,

And wag his tail as though to say:

“Cowardice is not a virtue—