If you'd really learn and practice Thrift

(As the frozen poor have needed lately)

Get the great Elizabethan gift

Of (economically) being "stately."

(Mr. Stead that dower will explain.)

You must have a castle to begin with;

Then give a Bal PoudrÉ. You will gain!

(Having nothing else to do your "tin" with.)

The true way to save is—spend your money

On a splendid pageant! Ain't it funny?

Salisbury for Hodge advised a circus,

I a Bal PoudrÉ for every "Vorkuss"!