Just where the parson from his door

Relieved the sorrows of the humble,

The workhouse shields the houseless poor,

Who execrate the mighty Bumble.

A thousand nightingales in song

Have warbled melodies for ages,

Where now canary-sellers throng,

And linnets chirp in tiny cages.

Where Strephon sighed and sighed to win,

And dainty Phyllis churned her butter,