But the night was dark adn they missed their mark,
And, driven well-nigh to distraction,
They lost their ways in a murky maze
Of utter abstruse abstraction.

They they took a boat and were soon afloat
On a sea of Speculation,
But the sea grew rough, adn their boat, though tough
Was split into an Equation.

As the floundered about in the waves of doubt
Rose a fearful Hypothesis,
Who gibbered with glee as they sank in the ssea,
Adn the last they saw was this:

On a rock-bound reef of Unbelief
There sat the wild Negation;
Then they sank once more and were washed ashore
At the Point of Interrogation.

Source: Metaphysics by Oliver Herford, 1898