A man, I enter on the stage
Where human passions fret and rage,
To mingle in the strife.
It ought to be a happy date,
My friends, they all congratulate
That I am come to “Man’s Estate,”
To some, a grand event;
But ah! to me descent allots
No acres, no paternal spots
In Beds, Bucks, Herts, Wilts, Essex, Notts,