At a bright fire she makes the tea, her sorrows flee away;

Where shall she learn our toil who so tender picked it all?

How that without a sign the fierce winds and rains did rise,

Drenching and soaking our persons as if plunged into a bath.

But though my heaving bosom like a well-sweep rise and fall,

Still patient in my poverty and care I’ll never shun my usual toil;

My only thought shall be to have new tea well fired,

That the flag and awl be well rolled and show their whitened down.


[THE MENDER OF CRACKED CHINAWARE.]