Charles Augustus Fortescue, Who Always Did What was Right, and so Accumulated an Immense Fortune

The nicest child I ever knew

Was Charles Augustus Fortescue.

He never lost his cap, or tore

His stockings or his pinafore:

In eating Bread he made no Crumbs,

He was extremely fond of sums.

And as for finding Mutton-Fat

Unappetising, far from that!

He often, at his Father's Board,

Would beg them, of his own accord,

To give him, if they did not mind,

The Greasiest Morsels they could find -

His Later Years did not belie

The Promise of his Infancy.

In Public Life he always tried

To take a judgment Broad and Wide;

In Private, none was more than he

Renowned for quiet courtesy.

He rose at once in his Career,

And long before his Fortieth Year

Had wedded Fifi, Only Child

Of Bunyan, First Lord Aberfylde.

He thus became immensely Rich

And built a Splendid Mansion which

Is called "The Cedars, Muswell Hill,"

Where he resides in Affluence still

To show what Everybody might

Become by - simply doing right.