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ANSWER TO PAUPER
Don't tell me of buds and blossoms,
Or with rose and vi'let wheedle—
Nosegays grow for other bosoms,
Churchwarden and Beadle!
What have you to do with streams?
What with sunny skies, or garish,
Cuckoo songs or pensive dreams?—
Nature's not your parish!
Or with rose and vi'let wheedle—
Nosegays grow for other bosoms,
Churchwarden and Beadle!
What have you to do with streams?
What with sunny skies, or garish,
Cuckoo songs or pensive dreams?—
Nature's not your parish!
What right have such as you to dun
For sun or moonbeams, warm or bright?
Before you talk about the sun,
Pay for window-light!
Talk of passions—amorous fancies;
While your betters' flames miscarry—
If you love your Dolls and Nancys,
Don't we make you marry?
For sun or moonbeams, warm or bright?
Before you talk about the sun,
Pay for window-light!
Talk of passions—amorous fancies;
While your betters' flames miscarry—
If you love your Dolls and Nancys,
Don't we make you marry?
Talk of wintry chill and storm,
Fragrant winds, that blanch your bones;
You poor can always keep you warm,
An't there breaking stones?
Suppose you don't enjoy the spring,
Roses fair and vi'lets meek,—
You cannot look for everything
On eighteenpence a week!
Fragrant winds, that blanch your bones;
You poor can always keep you warm,
An't there breaking stones?
Suppose you don't enjoy the spring,
Roses fair and vi'lets meek,—
You cannot look for everything
On eighteenpence a week!
With seasons what have you to do?—
If corn doth thrive, or wheat is harmed?—
What's weather to the cropless? You
Don't farm—but you are farm'd!
Why everlasting murmurs hurl'd,
With hardship for the text?—
If such as you don't like this world—
We'll pass you to the next.
If corn doth thrive, or wheat is harmed?—
What's weather to the cropless? You
Don't farm—but you are farm'd!
Why everlasting murmurs hurl'd,
With hardship for the text?—
If such as you don't like this world—
We'll pass you to the next.
Overseer.
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