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    Nor send a foaming curse on earth To smoke the bread from crat their mouth , And make them starve , or learn to thieve ; For when they ask & gent * to give , He'll send ' em off with many kicks hence For steam-made coffins , sold at six-pence !

    What shall avert the coming blow ? What shield wall out the iron-limVd woe , And stop this foaming hydrophobia ? For nought can flourish that doth grow-by-her ! So universal in its use ,

    'Tis sure to change into abuse . This fiend of madness and of might Nought can dispel , or check its spite , Save hydra-headed England ' s axe , The Herculean power of tax .

    Oh , Tax ! thou whale of every state , Amidst whose blubber dwells its fate . Ope thy huge maw and lay a claim To shoala of money , till you tame This monstrous , blustering , fiery griffin , Who'll press our tradesmen like a biffin ; Make Fine-Arts dwindle in their sockets ,

    And . Labour stand with hands in pockets ; Astound the world with miracles , And empty bellies !—make us fools In our grave wisdom , which gave birth To that which can devour the earth 1

    Yet still a lack there ' 11 be of pelf For dead-stock tradesmen laid on shelf ; While cart-loads of our poor mechanics , Worse off than now by striking panics , Must e ' en be fed , since Steam has made them Of no more use than grass to Adam . Full well we know that hunger Hies To cheapness , and necessities

    Peck at a flint-skin—tho * for pleasure In meat and drink that acorns all measure , Whatever tempting sweets adorn theco , Let ' em be cheap , and John Bull scorns them But wants being far more numerous Than any dear-sold pleasures humorous ,

    And pheasant , ven son * snipe , quaii , grouse , In less request than mackerel souse , Flour , coal and candle , cheese and beer , Cloth , leather , steel , and crockery ware ; Altho' their cheapness must be wonderous , All grown , found , wrought by engines thunderous ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 879, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/61/