Memoir of John Stanford, Late Chaplain to the Humane and Criminal Institutions in the City of New York (1835)

Good morning, hello, would you meet the household? Iall bide my time might you accept, And introduce them step by step. The sad and frail, and ill-fated, The wise, cracked, and evaded, The strange and happy each have stories. So should you open up your ears, And be patient with me here, Then letas begin to meet my friends, A melodyamy bellsawill call them.