’Twould be at best our labor for our pains;
He gains but little who a woman gains:
Sad work, for hearts worn out with household noise,
And arms grown lame long since with nursing baby-boys!
VI.
Tobacco-posies blossom high and low;
Tobacco-posies bloom where’er you go;
All day the breezes from the ocean dipping,
O’er hill and vale, on tireless tiptoe tripping,
Up and down the sandy beach the dust of the Tobacco blow.