A servant of all work:

Made beds, baked pies, cleaned shoes, hemmed shirts

Blacked grates, and pickled pork.

Young Guy was born upon the Thames,

Off the Adelphi, Strand;

And so the water—do you see?—

Became his father-land.

'Twas there he served his time; and none

On "wessel," boat, or raft,

More honest was: altho' 'twas known