Which carry perhaps to the cottage door,

The cottage that doesn't belong to me.

But it's miles from town

And it's tumble-down,

And the woodwork's done and the slates are brown;

No one could really live in the cottage

That doesn't belong to me.

Fair be the towns by the river-side,

Maidenhead, Richmond, Henley, Kew,

Crammed with cottages far and wide,