On foot, in a 'bus, or a hansom;
To labour a few years, and then have done,
A capital prospect at twenty-one!
There's a wife and three children to keep,
With chances of more in the offing;
We've a house at Earl's Court on the cheap,
And sometimes we get a day's golfing.
Well! sooner or later we'll have better fun;
The heart is still hopeful at thirty-one.
The boy's gone to college to-day,