When ev'ry one receives a bun and goes without a dinner.
Ah, happy England! thou'rt indeed a charitable nation,
Thy charities thou dost without the slightest ostentation;
How proud it makes a Briton feel to view this glorious sight,
Tho' some there are too dull to share the exquisite delight.
I heard a surly cynic once thus vent his angry spleen,
As he with jaundic'd eye beheld the animated scene:—
"If this be Christian Charity, who loves abroad to roam,
"I wish, instead of coming here, that she had stay'd at home.
"I'm sure she has no feeling for those wretched little dears,