Conceal’d, full many a day in school did lie,

Escaped the notice of the stern-eyed bloke,

To linger in this box and never die.

To take excursion by the iron way,

In smoking-carriage, where thick clouds arise;

To fumigate—(tho’ anti-smokers bray),

And blow their ashes into people’s eyes—

Their state forbids. Now, circumscribed they lie,

For pleasure useless, and for work as well;

Weak, helpless, all, I bid them now good-by;