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Mammoth Monopoly will turn The penny , till there ' s nought to ears ; Make four doubloons out of a groat , And cork tfie nation ' - * hungry throat ! So tax proud Steam I and quell our fears Of rent for eyes , nose , mouth , and ears .
E ' en Music has been threatened sore . With tax , e ' en when like pork , in score ; If printed , ' tis a settled matter , Two-pence ' per ann . ' for Stoney-batter . Pianos , harps , and lady-lutes ,
Grim fiddles , castanets , and flutes , The groaning serpejit ; , fretful trumpet , And squeaking flageolet , no dumb pet , Old hurdy-gurdy ' s saw and wheels , And horns , like Midas-handled eels , Fat-bellied kettle-drums that show
Like twins of Dutch cheese cut in two ; In short , from deep-mouth * d sad bassoon , Whose rnoaning ' s like a cow in swoon , From fife—pert brag-pipe—to trombone , From double bass to bag-pipe drone , ( Tremble ye sons of phillibeg !) Or sheep-gut stretch'd on hollow keg ;
None shall escape ! Sweet hautboy ' s nose-carp Shall fare as ill as cow-boy ' s jew ' s-harp ; Church organs only shall prove jugglers , While Christmas' waits turn fiddle-smugglers , And Spanish refugees deposit Guitars , like beetles , in the closet .
With many a wry-mouth shall we pay For soul's-wine to our cakes of clay ; Mozart , Corelli , Cherubini , Beethoven grave and bright Rossini , For Haydn ' 8 thunders , Weber ' s trance And strain of demon-throng'd romance .
But z ds , grim Tax must be extended O ' er all that ' s made , and all that ' s mended * For Steam will smoke the Ministry And make past * Act Pans' all my eye ! For as volcanoes from the ocean Have burst with clouds and flam'd commotion
Sending half fried , tho' not in dish , To Santorini ' s shore , dead fish ; So shall Steam undermine and blow-up The parliaments and states of Europe , And send them parboil'd , flay * d and poor To flounce their last at ruin ' s door . We p ity not , &aith Aristotle , What tar futurity will throttle :
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88 b The Age of Steam .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 880, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/62/
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