Beneath their dimities the men of trade,

’Till rainy day upon their eye-lids peep,

(Each in his narrow crib in comfort laid,)

The clerk and master innocently sleep.

The smoky call of sooty-breathing morn,

The servants stirring just above their head,

The milk-man’s whistle, or a mail-guard’s horn,

Shall soon arouse them from their feather bed:

For they no more will risk “another turn,”

But to their former posts with haste repair,