What a blissful wealth of plumpness they tenderly enclose!

Naught you’ll find in ancient story

Like those shapely symmetries.

Solomon, in all his glory,

Was not arrayed in one of these

Dainty hose, hose, hose.

Nothing can compare with those

Striped with the crimson color of the fragrant-scented rose.

Oh! those hose, hose, hose, hose,

Hose, hose, hose—