Garnished and swept do stand—

'Tis where doth stream the fœtid steam

From the bone-boiler's vat,

The knacker's yard, which penned and barred,

Sends out its odours fat;

The slaughter-vault, whence, ne'er at fault,

Peereth the carrion rat.

In tanneries' stink, on cesspools' brink,

I sit and sleep and snuff;

The fever's breath brings me no death,