'The Travellers' Curse after Misdirection'

(from the Welsh)

 May they stumble, stage by stage
 On an endless Pilgrimage
 Dawn and dusk, mile after mile
 At each and every step a stile
 At each and every step withal
 May they catch their feet and fall
 At each and every fall they take
 May a bone within them break
 And may the bone that breaks within
 Not be, for variations sake
 Now rib, now thigh, now arm, now shin
 but always, without fail, the NECK

 	-- Robert Graves