Classic Poem

Cures for chilblains, corns, and bunnions,
Welsh procession, leeks and onions;
Sad St. Stephen bored by praters,
Dale and Co., champagne creators;
Spain resolved to spurn endurance,
Economic Life Insurance:
Young man absent from his own house,
Body at St. Martin's bonehouse;
Search for arms in county Kerry,
Deals, Honduras, Pondicherry,
Treadmill, Haydon, Tom and Jerry.

Pall-Mall, Allen, chairs and tables,
Major Cartwright, iron cables;
Smithfield, price of veal and mutton,
Villa half a mile from Sutton;
Yearly meeting, lots of Quakers,
Freehold farm of forty acres;
Duke of Angouleme, despatches,
Thatch'd house tavern, glees and catches;
Cobourg, wonderful attraction,
Plunket, playhouse, Orange faction,
Consols eighty and a fraction.
Sales of sail-cloth, silk and camblet,
Kean in Shylock, Young in Hamlet;
Sad effects of random shooting,
Mermaid tavern, box at Tooting,
Water-colour exhibition,
Kemble's statue, Hone's petition;
Chateaubriand, Cape Madeira,
Longwood, Montholon, O'Meara;
Jerry Bentham's lucubrations,
Hume's critique on army rations,
Ex-officio informations.
Wapping Dock choke full of barter,
Senna, sponges, cream of tartar;
Willow bonnets, lank and limber,
Mops, molasses, tallow, timber;
Horse Bazzar, the life of Hayley,
Little Waddington, Old Bailey;
Gibbs and Howard, Gunter's ices,
Thoughts upon the present crisis;
Sweeting's Alley, sales by taper,
Lamp, Sir Humphrey, noxious vapour,
Stocks—Sum-total—Morning Paper.