It is Ann, gentle Ann, before whom we pass by,

We will add--'t would be useless in any to try

Disposition more lovely to find.

The next is a bright noble face we espy,

'Tis a boy of ten years we shall find;

There's a spice of the rogue in that merry young eye,

With good sense and good nature combined.

It's young master Alpheus--we never have found

One more punctual at school hour than he;

He's now but a lad, yet who knows when a man,