six-line-eights

Updated: May 4, 2025

"I can remember the beginning of the opening one," she said; "it was a six-line-eights, and we sang it to a tune called Stella; it began thus: "How can we sing like little birds, And hop about among the boughs? How can we gambol with the herds, Or chew the cud among the cows? How can we pop with all the weasles Now Christopher has got the measles?" "Bravo!" exclaimed the subject of the hymn.

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler - The Farringdons