Rolling on the hearthrug, full of tricks and fun. Five rosy girls, in years from Ten to Six:
Sitting down to lessons - no more time for tricks. Five growing girls, from Fifteen to Eleven:
Music, Drawing, Languages, and food enough for seven! Five winsome girls, from Twenty to Sixteen:
Each young man that calls, I say "Now tell me which you MEAN!" Five dashing girls, the youngest Twenty-one:
But, if nobody proposes, what is there to be done? Five showy girls - but Thirty is an age
When girls may be ENGAGING, but they somehow don't ENGAGE. Five dressy girls, of Thirty-one or more:
So gracious to the shy young men they snubbed so much before! Five PASSE girls - Their age? Well, never mind!
We jog along together, like the rest of human kind:
But the quondam "careless bachelor" begins to think he knows
The answer to that ancient problem "how the money goes"!
