ALL.

_He_ won't let drowsing dogs lie, he'll stir up the tabby sleeping Tom--
In fact, he is the model of a modern German Peeping Tom!

I bounce into the Ball-Room when they think I'm fast asleep at home,
And measure steps and skirts and things and mark what state folks keep
at home;
Watch the toilette of young Beauty on the very strictest Q.T. too,
Evangelise the Army and keep sentries to their duty, too,
On the Navy, and the Clergy, and the Schools, my wise eyes shoot lights,
Sir.
I'm awfully particular to regulate the footlights, Sir.
I preach sermons to my soldiers and arrange their "duds" and duels, too,
And tallow their poor noses, when they've colds, and mix their gruels,
too;
I'll make everybody moral, and obedient, and frugal, Sir--
In fact I'm an Imperial edition of MCDOUGALL, Sir!

ALL.

He'd compel us to drink water and restrain us when to wed agog;
In fact he is the model of a Modern German pedagogue.

I've all the god-like attributes, omniscient, ubiquitous,
I mean to squelch free impulse, which is commonly iniquitous.
But what's the good of being Chief Inspector of the Universe,
And prying into everything from pompous Law to puny verse,
If everything or nearly so, shows a confounded tendency
_To go right of its own accord_? My Masterful Resplendency