Than the one that I have mentioned, still the truth I but express
When I say he now is earning such a wage as wouldn't shock
A respectable Archbishop or a fashionable jock.
And the face that all men sneered at, now is very much admired,
And the public ne'er, apparently, of watching it grows tired,
And the Merchant who dismissed him, in the Stalls is wont to sit,
While the Sergeant and his sweetheart are applauding from the Pit.
The moral of my narrative is easy to espy.
But still I'd better mention it, lest some should pass it by:
"Though it's often very troublesome indeed to find it out—