Adorns the hearth, flaunts in the gale.

In every land, on every sea,

Where commerce traverses the globe,—

’Tis knit in garb’s simplicity;

Knit in the monarch’s choicest robe;

Knit in the infant’s swaddling clothes;

Knit in the mother’s “jaconet;”—[70]

In colours various as the rose,

As various as the violet,

Promiscuous ’sturchion, and (methinks)