This one is also from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (non-SA readers click here) by Lewis Carroll. I think sometimes we all talk in tremulous tones about sharks…
The Lobster – Lewis Carroll
’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.” As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes. When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
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