II + 

Sweeping the Floor + 

Sweep and sweep and sweep the floor, + 

Sweep the dust, pick up the pin; + 

Make it clean from fire to door, + 

Clean for father to come in! + 

Mother said that God goes sweeping, + 

Looking, sweeping with a broom, + 

All the time that we are sleeping, + 

For a shilling in the room: + 

Did he drop it out of glory, + 

Walking far above the birds? + 

Or did parson make the story + 

For the thinking afterwards? + 

If I were the swept-for shilling + 

I would hearken through the gloom; + 

Roll out fast, and fall down willing + 

Right before the sweeping broom! + 