The sauciest of bonny belles,

In broidered coat with white lappels;

Her ample tresses one descries

Are closely plaited, pig-tail-wise.

A smart cocked hat, a trim cockade,

Are sported by this Midshipmaid.

I wonder, in a dreamy way,

If e'er she lived in Nelson's day?

Was she a kind of "William Carr,"

Or did she fight at Trafalgar?