And fills with awful screams the flies.

By straining and shrieking she reaches the notes,

Out of tune, out of time too, the wild music floats;

Till, by degrees, the vigorous bawl

Seems to decay,

And melts away

In a feeble, feeble squall.

In music there's a medium, you know;

Don't sing too high nor sink too low.

If in a house tumultuous rows arise,