ir aims, and bow your head in wonder!

They intend to send a wire
To the moon

Cyril &
Florian: To the moon;

Hilarion: And they'll set the Thames on fire
Very soon

Cyril &
Florian: Very soon;

Hilarion: Then they'll learn to make silk purses
With their rigs

Cyril &
Florian: With their rigs.

Hilarion: From the ears of Lady Circe's
Piggy-wigs

Cyril &
Florian: Piggy-wigs.

Hilarion: And weasels at their slumbers
They trepan

Cyril &
Florian: They trepan;

Hilarion: To get sunbeams from cucumbers
They've a plan

Cyril
& Florian: They've a plan.

Hilarion: They've a firmly rooted notion
They can cross the Polar Ocean,
And they'll find Perpetual Motion,
If they can

All: If they can.
These are the phenomena
That ev'ry pretty domina
Is hoping at her Universitee we shall see.

These are the phenomena
That ev'ry pretty domina
Is hoping at her Universitee we shall see!

Cyril: As for fashion, they forswear it,
So they say

Hilarion &
Florian: So they say;

Cyril: And the circle -- they will square it
Some fine day

Hilarion &
Florian: Some fine day;

Cyril: Then the little pigs they're teaching
For to fly

Hilarion &
Florian: For to fly;

Cyril: And the niggers they'll be bleaching,
By and by

Hilarion &
Florian: By and by!

Cyril: Each newly joined aspirant
To the clan

Hilarion &
Florian: To the clan

Cyril: Must repudiate the tyrant