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,
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          To which, however, he preferred
    The Parsing of a Latin Word—
    He sought, when it was in his power,
    For information twice an hour,
    And as for finding Mutton-Fat
    Unappetising, far from that!
    He often, at his Father's Board,
    Would beg them, of his own accord,
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          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;
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          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,
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                           Only Child
    Of Bunyan, First Lord Aberfylde.
    He thus became immensely Rich,
    And built the Splendid Mansion which
    Is called
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          “The Cedars,
             Muswell Hill,”

    Where he resides in Affluence still
    To show what Everybody might
    Become by
                    SIMPLY DOING RIGHT.