But brought not, though he did implore,

One humble glass of cold without.

He only said, "The night is dreary;"

"Bail cometh not," he said;

He said, "I have been very beery,

I would I were in bed!"

At morn, the noise of boys aloof,

Inspectors' orders, and the chaff

Of cads upon the busses' roof,

To Poplar bound, too much by half