Who a party stopp’d of three

(A father and his children twain):

“Wilt sail to-day?” quoth he.

“My yacht she lieth off the shore:

A shilling each you’ll pay.”

The father slowly shook his head—

“I thank you—not to day.

“I see your yacht upon the shore,

Dancing right merrily;

But then my wife, ere we came out,