VII

His seat is on a mud-bank, and his trade

Is dirt:—he’s quite contemptible; and yet

The fellow’s all as anxious as a maid

To show a decent dress, and dry the wet.

Now it’s his whisker,

And now his nose, and ear: he seems to get

Each moment at the motion brisker!

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