The School Feast

Now Lady Emma at the Grange A School Feast has at Heart, And very kindly does arrange That we shall all take Part.

Maria, to avert the Cold, Her velvet Spencer wears, And little Jane, of five Years old, A Sun-shade gravely bears.

Edward, and Charles, and Sister Fan In Joy their Accents raise, And William Fry, the Garden man, Puts Dobbin in the Chaise.

Papa assumes the Reins’ control, Mama her Shawl, and so Crack goes the Whip, the Wheels they roll, And now, away we go!

How happy we, with Parents kind And Clothes so clean and neat: Oh! may we always bear in Mind ’Twas Virtue earn’d this Treat.