BELOW. 

 First Student: 

 See the Dutchmen on those settees: Isn't it like the Rhine? And the old church-tower up over the trees— Kellner! Noch ein Stein! 

Isn't it like the Rhine?

Kellner! Noch ein Stein!

 Third Student: 

 I'd like to work with those masons there Half way up the sky. The air is sweet where the pigeons build, And the world is all in their eye. 

I'd like to work with those masons there

Half way up the sky.

The air is sweet where the pigeons build,

And the world is all in their eye.

 Second Student: 

 But "Love is of the valley:" the Gretchen and the Kellner Haunt the cheerful levels of the lower story. Glory in the garret—comfort in the cellar: I will keep the comfort—you may take the glory. 

Haunt the cheerful levels of the lower story.

I will keep the comfort—you may take the glory.

 ABOVE. 

 First Mason: 

 Look up at the pointers: they 're drawing close together; 'T is here we get the earliest news of sun, and moon, and weather; We can hear time's pulse a-ticking, with the whistling weathercock. Drop your mortar-boards, my lads, it's coming twelve o'clock. 

 Third Mason: 

 Oh! it's hungry that I am with working in the wind, But there's a shawl and bonnet—below there: do you mind? It's Molly with the dinner-pail: she's coming in the door. Faith, my belly thinks my throat is cut 

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