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