If I but chance to move about

Or enter within their bustling hives!

Buz! buz! in the scandalous gatherings,

When a strange queen lights amid their throng,

And their tongues have a thousand angry stings

To send her travelling, right or wrong.

Well, the earth is wide and open to all,

And money and men are everywhere,

And, as I roam, ’twill ill befall

If I do not gain my lawful share: