And all I got for wages, was a compliment behind!
And thus I was a failure, my later life was worse,
When twenty years were over, at last I found a purse.
It made me sad, and homesick, and tired of foreign life,
"I'll start," says I, "for Europe, and try and find my wife."
I sought her when I landed, but everything was changed,
And high and low I wandered, and far and near I ranged;
I put her full description in several ads.—at last
My flag of hope that fluttered, came half-way down the mast.
I went, and I enlisted all in the bluecoat ranks;