I give the poor dumb cattle best.'

I wondered, then, why life should be,

And what would be the end of me

When youth and health and strength were gone

And cold old age came creeping on?

A keeper's gun? The Union ward?

Or that new quod at Hereford?

And looking round I felt disgust

At all the nights of drink and lust,

And all the looks of all the swine