Full at each beavered pate
Over the cobble-stones
(Rough on a fellow's bones)
Marched the five hundred.
III.
Flashed all their teeth laid bare,
Flashed as they cheered the fair;
Chaffing the unwashed there,
Chaffing the redolent, while
Democracy wondered.
Plunged in the torches' smoke
Straight down the street they broke;
Cheese-it and Peeler
Reeled from their classic joke, -
Reeled back confounded.
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