I’ve tipped the lamplighter
Though dark is my road;
Remembered coal heavers,
Though paid with each load—
Even poor-rate collectors,
Who no mercy showed.
And O! of all tortures
That torture the worst,
The Waits! who awoke me
From sweet slumber nurst,
I’ve tipped the lamplighter
Though dark is my road;
Remembered coal heavers,
Though paid with each load—
Even poor-rate collectors,
Who no mercy showed.
And O! of all tortures
That torture the worst,
The Waits! who awoke me
From sweet slumber nurst,