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RHVMES OF THE TIMES— No. II. 

 BY A REFORMER. 



Patriot kings, and clubs united. 



Plans to cleanse tho earth from crimes. 



Famine's prayer no longer slighted. 

 Form the Topics of the 'I'imes. 



Wise electors free from vices. 



Parliaments like paradises. 



All that's tragic changed to comic. 

 Thorns fast budding into flowers ; 



Luxury turned economic. 



Draughts of sweets distilled from sours ; 



El Dorados, lands of pleasure. 



Tread-mills gone^ and hoards of treasure. 



" Standing-armies" onward marching 



In the general rnsh of mind ; 

 Fairy rainbows overarching 



Mitred men that Once were blind ; 

 Prelates yielding up their sees. 

 Peasants digging at their ease. 



New creations, peers by dozens. 



Chosen — though but lords for life — 



From the Commons and their cousins. 

 As extinguishers to strife ; 



Hundreds rushing into ermine — 



If the king should so determine. 



Nightly calls at both the houses 

 To repeat " God save the King ;" 



Every party that carouses 

 Sings it too — or tries to sing. 



Every molehill, ere December 



Comes again, shall have its member. 



Simultaneous social meetings. 

 Sages speaking from balloons ; 



Every one received with greetings. 

 And with Conquering-Hero tunes : 



Climate changing with reform — 



Summer cool, and winter warm. 



Slave-trade over — not a martyr. 

 Black or white, confined by bars ; 



And the Leadenhall-street charter 

 Torn, to light untaxed cigars : 



All our tea and sugar sources 



Freed, by negro Wilberforces. 



Fundholders exclaiming " satis" 



To a shilling in the pound ; 

 Paganini playing gratis ; 



Opera, the whole year round : 

 Clerks careering there on ponys. 

 Charmed by taste, and Taglionis. 



Peace-and-temperance concoctors ; 



Lions on and off the stage ; 

 Railroads, reason, and no doctors— 



These are Emblems of the Age. 

 See — as wide the vapours sever — 

 England's sun more bright than ever ! 



