Gilding the beer-shop's saw-dust bowers,

The cabbage-stalks in lieu of flowers,

The trodden orange-peel,

Till, calm as heaven, the moon appears,

A Sister in a house of tears,

Who soothes, but cannot heal.

And now the cheap excursionists

Come, tired and happy, home,

And hear amid the noisy streets

The churning of the foam.