Stretched forth their necks to catch a sight
Of one so spruce and so polite.
“There goes the charming man,” they cry;
And then they laugh, I know not why!
And then, all wonder and amaze,
At him and at each other gaze.
The thing’s confirm’d beyond a doubt,
Although the cause is not found out,—
The modest ninny thinks his worth
Has not his parallel on earth;