Who lets her little ’larum run

Till scarcely can the listener know

If that or time more swiftly go!

Henceforth I know the terrible bore

Of “padding the hoof” no more, no more;

But back to this seat I so oft have press’d

I’ll spring to be wafted the while I rest:

For thou, dear ’Buss! art a home to me,

While I am snugly seated in thee,

While I am, etc.