For gospel among the “down-trodden masses;”
And to prate of the “wrongs and indignities,” which
Are heaped on their heads by the “cold-hearted rich.”
This Spirit was busy at work one day,
Amongst a crowd of Bowery boys,
When Charity happened to come that way;
And she stopped to listen—though, sooth to say,
She seldom is fond of clamor and noise.