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354 THE TOM AH A WK. •&*"**$* l8 7°'
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Dedicated to the Promoters and Directors...
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354 The Tom Ah A Wk. •&*"**$* L8 7°'
354 THE TOM AH A WK . •&* " ** $ * l 8 7 ° '
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Dedicated To The Promoters And Directors...
Dedicated to the Promoters and Directors of : Public Companies . " Yes "Well !— you the know Tyrant his fast dreaded approaches name \ , : Swiftl O ' er y my his worn cold hand aiid wasted encroaches frame , . 41 Yet 'tis not t ; he fear of dying Nor That For affection a appal soul that s , weep my must anguish ing , depart sig ' hing d heart , . , . " Such is life !— 'Twere canting madness Moralizing on this scene ; , Thousands die of grief and sadness . Few Directors , though , I ween . " The And refore my feeble , as grim pulse Death grows is n weak ear n \ e . 'Tis 'Ti the s of Living them that / they I would shall speak hear me . ^ , ' " Years Years of of toil fierc have e and been bitter my strife portiqn j , Not Did by I fraud win tl or \ e by Staff extortion of Life . . " Paltry honours I detested , Not Nought for these cared I all for invested specious rank , In an ' old es my tablished bank , . ' # > F Twas or the tor ir those sakes I I loved bouh t the cheri shares shed ; Butalas I my fortune p erished , ; I , was caught in wily snares . " Wil Think y snare I s am ! think blind ye to I ' facts m wandYing , Spruce Directors ye ? Nay ! I'm pond ' ring— - Pond'ring on your words and acts . ' < Calmly Even as thinking this body —while dies j life lingers , i Clutching in my bony fingers , i Your : prospectus _~ ;—damnea l _ lies . 9 j §
" Well That ye old knew firm when was do first onVd ye to penn smash 'd it , : All Or your avert cunning the final could crash not . mend it , " But ye laughed at others' troubles ; So 'Twas ye blew for the Lucre golden —ye bubbles did tlu ' rst , , Knowing welt , they soon would burst . " I Vanished was ruined in — your all my spiders savings den- t — These I ' m as are sane not as a madman ye were ' then s ravings . , ?< God J what misery , what anguish !> Have I suffered from that blow- — Want Poverty has — made has laid my children me low . ' * languish , " Still Loss I of bore fortune with — calm loss endurance of health— , - Trusting Would * - " that provide '' ' my "''¦ ' my Life ' wife Assurance " with wealth , . ¦¦ . •\ r ,. t < V- Trusting Trusting , ha to an ! ' ha idle J— | dream vain delu : sion , Beggar ? d , "beggarM—inad confusion . i - True ... , ¦? things ' * . ** - ¦ ¦¦ ' ¦ are ¦ ~ ¦ , *¦ nd * -j v' ^ £ -what . they * seem ! {< Ha ! hal-haJ ; V' ponMJ , le ^ s be rnerry , : - This Sing is our first- gains class in boaV | 0 yoUs ^ % oom ^ ee sTBerry ^— , Secretary- —bring our fees . r « We Wines must and live horses —Ha gqod J ha ! and how rare joll ; y !• daug Such hters things deck are 'd in our fashion only care ' s foll . yf < Justice , Sir ! this is tfee city , If For whining the law orpfea w © ^ have s crave no fox fears pity , , Let the workhouse stop their tears , " Here the trembling , gaunt shareholder Raised himself in agony—Sh Shall rieked I ^ qurse Ha ! them ha ! ere 14 $ . I growing die ?'? colder ! Yet Then Y . ou once fell ? < i have more back sworn , he al l slowly rigid that , palUd rallied look was , , -rrrDeath ; And thus with his latest breath—Murmured—r" Dearest wife-r- O Heaven ! An Bless d my thee boys ! -nmay and my none daughters be driven fair , T-r-Into crixnie through sheer despair . " Dreadful sight ! I see th , ern starving-See my offspring-r-homeless-pooreT-T Xes What J I see she their ? s begged mother from halving dopr to door . ^ Dreadful Ye—the murderer sight ! ' Wljat of t ( heir J are sire ye ? laughing ? Boar God d- — room my brain sherry — gail my y brain quaf ' fing s on fire . Y (< Curses < m ye , scherning devils ! Glory Calculating ing in your —heartless selfish revels —cold — , : B ought with others '—hard one— Gold—I Human ears heard not the mutt ' rance mfo tk j || j & c f . " Which CTOW wa '— ^ 4 , M ivpifc those ' . . ft ; ghastl - 'P that ^ n tife last y lip stfent sad s then utt grave " 'ranqg gave — " -rr . ' m £ r \ .. IIII I Or
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), June 25, 1870, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_25061870/page/12/
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