Saving leap year, when one day
Added is to gain lost time;
May it not be spent in play,
Nor in any evil crime.
Time is short, we often say;
Let us, then, improve it well;
That eternally we may
Live where happy angels dwell.
AVOIRDUPOISE WEIGHT.
Sixteen drachms are just an ounce,
As you'll find at any shop;
Sixteen ounces make a pound,
Should you want a mutton chop.
Twenty-eight pounds are the fourth
Of an hundred weight call'd gross;
Four such quarters are the whole
Of an hundred weight at most.
Oh! how delightful,
Oh! how delightful,
Oh! how delightful,
To sing this rule.
Twenty hundreds make a ton;
By this rule all things are sold
That have any waste or dross
And are bought so, too, I'm told.
When we buy and when we sell,
May we always use just weight;
May we justice love so well
To do always what is right.
Oh! how delightful,
&c., &c., &c.