Once visited Deal in the County of Kent
He did not write these lines
Which were found in a small brown box
At his lodging house
Soon after his departure
The dreamlands did not detain us whilst at sea
for a seagull took the ships cat in its beak
and flew up into the sky
Both creatures were felled by a flaming arrow
fired from the quarterdeck
It halted their passage brutally
Their remains burned brightly
for a while on the surface of the sea
but soon sank without ceremony