The streets that once I knew the best.

Yet when the plates, of varied size,

With hunger-stirring symphonies

Resound, I think—“A nice grilled bone!”

And sigh that all my money’s gone.

My friends now pass me, cut me dead;

I’m only happy when in bed;

I cannot get more “whisker-dye”

Without committing felony.

My creditors, with angry wail,