Must envy the son of the Coster,

The waifs of the Workhouse. Poor boys!

They, too, are unitedly yearning

To "go to the country," together.

Hope on the horizon is burning

With prospect of promising weather.

One pities them, looking and longing,

Aweary of waiting their turn

With those who are country wards thronging;

The "Voice of the Country" they'd learn.