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The Humourous Poetry of the English Language

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<strong>The</strong>re's fountains <strong>the</strong>re<br />

And crosses fair;<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's water-gods with urrns;<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's organs three,<br />

To play, d'ye see,<br />

"God save <strong>the</strong> Queen," by turns.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's statues bright<br />

Of marble white,<br />

Of silver and <strong>of</strong> copper,<br />

And some in zink,<br />

And some, I think,<br />

That isn't over proper.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's staym Ingynes,<br />

That stand in lines,<br />

Enormous and amazing,<br />

That squeal and snort,<br />

Like whales in sport,<br />

Or elephants a-grazing.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's carts and gigs,<br />

And pins for pigs;<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's dibblers and <strong>the</strong>re's harrows,<br />

And plows like toys,<br />

For little boys,<br />

And illegant wheel-barrows.<br />

For <strong>the</strong>m genteels<br />

Who ride on wheels,<br />

<strong>The</strong>re a plenty to indulge 'em,<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's Droskys snug<br />

From Paytersbug<br />

And vayhycles from Belgium.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's Cabs on Stands,<br />

And Shandthry danns;<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's wagons from New York here;<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's Lapland Sleighs,<br />

Have cross'd <strong>the</strong> seas,

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