There are six empty houses and not so well papered inside as out.
For bill-stickers won’t beware, but stick notices of sales and election placards all about.
That’s the Doctor’s with a green door, where the garden pots in the window is seen;
A weakly monthly rose that don’t blow, and a dead geranium, and a tea plant with five black leaves, and one green.
As for hollyhocks at the cottage doors, and the honeysuckles and jasmines, you may go and whistle;
But the Tailor’s front garden grows two cabbages, a dock, a ha’porth of pennyroyal, two dandelions, and a thistle!
There are three small orchards—Mr. Busby’s the schoolmaster’s is the chief—
With two pear trees that don’t bear; one plum, and an apple that every year is stripped by a thief.
There’s another small day-school too, kept by the respectable Mrs. Gaby,
A select establishment for six little boys, and one big, and four little girls and a baby;