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KHYMF.S OF THE TIMES N^,. I.. 



BY AX ANTI-REFORMER. 



[These " Rhymes" are by the Laureate— and the Gem 

 That follows, by Lord Russell.— £rf. M. 3/.] 



Raggedness, reform, and riot ; 



Anarchy and atheism ; 

 Looms demolished, commerce quiet ; 



Treason and incendiarism ; 

 Debts and dungeons, cares and crimes — 

 These are Topics of the Times. 



Patriots and policemen waging 



Battle in unnumbered shoals ; 

 Winter coming — cholera raging — 



(What's the current price of coals ?) 

 Lawless passions, awful workings, 

 Bonfires, Boards of Health, and burkings. 



Furious feuds, like Lord George Gordon's ; 



Meetings, massacres, alarms ; 

 Parish champions, fat churchwardens. 



Special constables in arms. 

 Ministers quite mad — or sleeping ; 

 Mobs triumphant, monarchs weeping. 



Unions foniied for revolution. 



Sworn to plunder every peer. 

 And to slay a constitution 



Slain a dozen times a year. 

 Vile petitions, proclamations, 

 Libert}', and lamentations. 



Lords their broken windows boarding. 



Generous but afflicted race. 

 Pigmy Pitts ! the times affording 



Not a glimpse of pay or place — 

 Doomed to live, 'mid stones and rockets. 

 Upon pensions from our pockets. 



Noble noodles flying from us 

 To their cannon-planted parks ; 



Clothes dug up by Mr. Thomas, 

 First of culprit-catching sharks ; 



English brutes, Italian boys. 



Folly, phrenzy, nonsense, noise. 



Children's mourned and missing bones 



Recognized by each dissector ; 

 Gold sent off in foreign loans. 



Plans for making Hunt protector ; 

 Schemes for breaking allniachincs — 

 And the hearts of kings and queens. 



Church o'erturned by stccple-chascs. 



Led by riot-raising writers. 

 Furious pamphlets, gloomy faces. 



Fogs, philosophers, and fighters. 

 Taxes, troubles, fright and fray. 

 Quarrels, ((uacks, and ciuarter-day. 



Cobbctts, gorgons, Wakleys, dragons. 

 Hydras, Hunts — unfit for rhymes — 



Hungry orators in waggons — 

 These arc Symbols of the Times. 



Fiercer grows each fresh endeavour ; 



Knglaud's sua is set for ever ! 



