The home of rural Hygiene, where nasty smells are not,
Where HODGE shan't be the thrall
Of the Vicarage and the Hall,
In the Village shaped on Democratic lines!
There bobbing to their "betters" shall not be an institution
With the Jemmies and the Jessamies, as in the good old day;
There "Washhouses" shall civilise chawbacons—by ablution,
And Drink-shops shall not freely tithe the ploughman's paltry pay.
There shall be a Parish Council by the householders elected,
Who will snub "the Village tyrant" and will cut the Parson's comb;