“What is, to me, the City gay?

“And what, the board profusely spread?

“I have no home, no rich array,

“No spicy feast, no downy bed!

“I, with the dogs am doom’d to eat,

“To perish in the peopled street,

“To drink the tear of deep despair;

“The scoff and scorn of fools to bear!

“I sleep upon a bed of stone,

“I pace the meadows, wild—alone!