The curbstone no more when their highlows can wear.

Home! home! they’ve no home:

For poor old Policemen there’s no place like home!

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Then let a snug station await Life’s decline,

When once sturdy fists must their truncheons resign;

And ere his worn frame is consign’d to the loam,

Oh, grant the Policemen a few years of home!

Home! home! short, short home!

Let worn out Policemen have some place like home