. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. I /\ Ufio:) inrlT The Court of an Indian Prince.* 4S8. ODE TO THE ADVOCATES FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMITH-FIELD MARKET.* Sweeping our flocks and herds.—Douglas, 0 PHILANTHROPIC men !— For this address I need not make apology—Who aim at clearing out the Smithfield pen,And planting further off its vile Zoology—Permit me thus to tell, 1 like your efforts well, For rousting that great nest of Homithology ! Be not dismayd, although repulsed at first,And driven from their Horse, and Pig, and Lamb parts,Charge on !—you shall upon their hornworks burst
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. I /\ Ufio:) inrlT The Court of an Indian Prince.* 4S8. ODE TO THE ADVOCATES FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMITH-FIELD MARKET.* Sweeping our flocks and herds.—Douglas, 0 PHILANTHROPIC men !— For this address I need not make apology—Who aim at clearing out the Smithfield pen,And planting further off its vile Zoology—Permit me thus to tell, 1 like your efforts well, For rousting that great nest of Homithology ! Be not dismayd, although repulsed at first,And driven from their Horse, and Pig, and Lamb parts,Charge on !—you shall upon their hornworks burst,And carry all their Bu//-wcirks and their Jiam-paris, Go on, ye wholesale drovers !And drive away the Smithfield flocks and herds I As wild as Tartar-Curds,That come so fat, and kicking, from their clovers, • Comic Annual, 1830. ODE. 4S9 Off with them all 1—those restive briitPS-. that vex Our streets, and plunge, and lunge, and butt, and battle ; And save the female sex From being covvd—like lo—by the cattle I Fancv,—when droves appear onThe hill of Holborn, roaring from its top,—
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