A grim hard-fisted son of lucre,

His thoughts were ever on his hoard,

And life a money-game, like Euchre.

Bob Ainslie, late of London Town,

A spruce young butterfly of fashion,

A wrinkle in his dressing-gown

Would rouse an apoplectic passion.

John Waters, John the self-absorbed,

With thoughts for ever inward bent,

Complacent, self-contained, self-orbed,