His barrow round the garden gay,

A bob-tail cur is at his heels.

Ah, man! the brute creation see!

Thy constancy oft needs the spur!

While lessons of fidelity

Are found in every bob-tail cur.

Hard toil’d the youth, so fresh and strong,

While Bobtail in his face would look,

And mark’d his master troll the song,—

“Sweet Molly Dumpling! Oh, thou Cook!”