Texto de la canción inicial del capítulo 4 del libro segundo de Finnegans Wake, de James Joyce:
"Three quarks for muster Mark!
Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.
But O, Wreneagle Almighty, wouldn't un be a sky of a lark
To see that old buzzard whooping about for uns shirt in the dark
And he hunting round for uns speckled trousers around by
Palmerstown Park?
Hohohoho, moulty Mark!
You're the rummest old rooster ever flopped out of a Noah's ark
And you think you're the cock of the wark.
Fowls, up! Tristy's the spry ypung spark
That'll tread her and wed her and bed her and red her
Without ever winking the tail of a feather
And that's how that chap's going to make his money and
mark!"
El poema, en que abundan nombres de pájaros o sonoridades referentes a estos animales, es una canción de burla contra el rey Mark, que aparece en la leyenda de Tristán.