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Oh, it was just a splendid flight-- / That rocket's wild career! / But to an end it came, all right, / As you shall straightway hear.
It plunged into a can of cream / That Billy Bunk was freezing, / And froze quite stiff, as it would seem, / And so subsided, wheezing.