. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. The ill the Moon. 4o6. Fancy Pcirtrait :—M Brunei. ODE TO M. BRUNEI* Well said, old IMoIe ! canst work i the dark so fest? a worthy pinpeer !—HamUt Well !—Monsieur Brunei,How prospers now thy mighty undertaking,To join by a hollow way the Bankside friendsOf Rotherhithe and Wapping ? Never be stopping,But pokinLC, groping, in the dark keep makingAn archway, underneath the Dabs and Gud;^eons,For Collier men and pitchy old Curmudgeons,To cross tiie water in inverse proportion,Walk under steamboats under the keels ridge,To keep down all e.

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. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. The ill the Moon. 4o6. Fancy Pcirtrait :—M Brunei. ODE TO M. BRUNEI* Well said, old IMoIe ! canst work i the dark so fest? a worthy pinpeer !—HamUt Well !—Monsieur Brunei,How prospers now thy mighty undertaking,To join by a hollow way the Bankside friendsOf Rotherhithe and Wapping ? Never be stopping,But pokinLC, groping, in the dark keep makingAn archway, underneath the Dabs and Gud;^eons,For Collier men and pitchy old Curmudgeons,To cross tiie water in inverse proportion,Walk under steamboats under the keels ridge,To keep down all without sculls to diddle London Bridge!In a fresh hunt, a new Great Bore to worry,Thou didst to earth thy human terriers lollow,Hopeful at last from Middlesex to Surrey, To give us the View short it was thy aim, right north and put a pipe into old Thamess mouth ;Alas ! half-way thou hadst proceeded, whenOld Thanitrs, tiirough roof not waterproof,Came, like a tide in the affairs of men, * Comic Annual, 1831. ODE TO M. BRUNEL. And with a mig

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