"A Begum now at last am I,"

She said, when she had married him,

"A Begum!" said the Nabob. "Why?"

His wife explained. "A harmless whim,"

Said he; "but I regret to state, Ma'am,

You're not what you anticipate, Ma'am.

"A Begum is a Rajah's wife,

And not a Nabob's, don't you see;

And so throughout my natural life

A Begum you can never be."