Whose pleasaunce oft will downward fly,

And sparkle in his broad, bold eye;

A merry truth which ye, who’d know,

Go watch him, while he sings, “dust ho!”

Old brawny songster! ’tis to me

A marvel and a mystery,

The jovial and Stentorian gusto

With which thou daily callest “dust ho!”

How useful art thou, making clean

The dwellings both of rich and mean,