And take forty winks at mine ease!

My dreams are pleasant, so I don't care.

I'll sit and snooze in my Easy Chair!

There's nothing of note in the papers,

There's nothing to do or to say:

We suffer extremely from "vapours"—

The fog and the damp of each day.

Though cities be frozen or flooded,

'Tis useless to fume or to fret;

Though friends are bespattered and mudded—