To be the wheeling king.

Oh, better far the path to ride

Of cinders, merrily side by side,

And rank as a racing man of might,

Than dwindle away a summer’s night.

For honour is due to racer brave,

And scoff the reward of the moping slave;

So still I’ll ride, and the song I’ll sing

Will be that I’m the wheeling king.

For I am the wheeling king,