Could I but share your diet cheap and rude,

Your simple ways in trees and copses lurking;

But no, I need a pipe and lots of food,

A comfortable chair on which to brood—

Silence! the bard is working.

Could I but know that freedom from all care

That comes, I say, from gratis sets of suitings

And homes that need not premium nor repair

Except with sticks and mud and moss and hair,

My! there would be some flutings.