Ah! well-a-day, etc.

The street where now my life I led,

By neighborhood my steps brought on

To th’ Institute and Odéon,

Which every day I visited.

Ah! well-a-day, etc.

By writing this (hope quickly gone),

To cheer my spirits I essayed;

But yawned the while this song was made,

And now I sing it, still I yawn: