FRIEND OF HUMANITY

“NEEDY Knife-grinder, whither are you going?

Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order;

Bleak blows the blast; your hat has got a hole in’t,

So have your breeches!

“Weary Knife-grinder, little think the proud ones,

Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike

Road, what hard work ’tis crying all day, ‘Knives and

Scissors to grind O!’

“Tell me, Knife-grinder, how came you to grind knives?