Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/71

Rh In the full, fresh, fragrant morning

I observed a camel crawl,

Laws of gravitation scorning,

On the ceiling and the wall;

Then I watched a fender walking,

And I heard gray leeches sing,

And a red-hot monkey talking

Did not seem the proper thing.

Then a Creature, skinned and crimson,

Ran about the floor and cried,

And they said I had the "jims" on,

And they dosed me with bromide,

And they locked me in my bed-room—

Me and one wee Blood Red Mouse—

Though I said:—"To give my head room

"You had best unroof the house."

But my words were all unheeded,

Though I told the grave M. D.

That the treatment really needed

Was a dip in open sea