II

You live in rows of snug abodes,

With gold, maybe, for counting;

And mine’s the beck of the rainy roads

Against the sun a-mounting.

I take the day as it behaves,

Nor shiver when ’tis airy;

But comes a breeze, all you are on waves,

Sick chickens o’ Mother Carey!

So, now for next, cries Roving Tim,

And croak, my jolly raven!

The wind according to its whim

Is in and out of haven.

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