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Monopoly's Briarean hands
Had dragged her harrow o'er a hundred lands,
But, chief, the terrors of her Gorgon frown
Had scared Edina's faint and famished town.
Then Want, the griffin, champed with iron jaws
Our shuddering hearts and agonizing maws;
Chased from our plundered boards each glad regale
Of vermeil ham, brown beef, and buxom ale.
Ah me! no strepent goose at Christmas-tide
Hissed in the strangler's hand, and kicked and died!
No trembling jellies nor ambrosial pie
Regaled the liquorish mouth and longing eye.
Red sunk December's last dishonoured sun,
And the young Year's-Day passed without a bun!
Had dragged her harrow o'er a hundred lands,
But, chief, the terrors of her Gorgon frown
Had scared Edina's faint and famished town.
Then Want, the griffin, champed with iron jaws
Our shuddering hearts and agonizing maws;
Chased from our plundered boards each glad regale
Of vermeil ham, brown beef, and buxom ale.
Ah me! no strepent goose at Christmas-tide
Hissed in the strangler's hand, and kicked and died!
No trembling jellies nor ambrosial pie
Regaled the liquorish mouth and longing eye.
Red sunk December's last dishonoured sun,
And the young Year's-Day passed without a bun!
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