Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot br The armless ambidextrian was lighting br A match between his great and second toe, br And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting br The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum br Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough br In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb br Quite unexpectedly to top blew off: br br And there, there overhead, there, there hung over br Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes, br There in the starless dark, the poise, the hover, br There with vast wings across the cancelled skies, br There in the sudden blackness the black pall br Of nothing, nothing, nothing -- nothing at all.