A BOROUGHED POEM.
Rouse ye up, ye merry Burgesses, The fray will soon begin. Take ye up your votes and suffrages, Peal off, and Avode straight in 1 Would ye plump for Thomas Bentley ? Q© prefer ye Henry Green, Whose mercantile establishment Presents so grand a scene ? Or Avould ye Meech, your man—. He of the kip and uppers ? Or Beecher, roist'ring Boniface Of grog, late hours, and suppjps ? Perchance 'tis the aged Wake ear— Ly, who Avorms the early vote? Or Bruce, the oleaginous Who drives the puffing boat ? Or go your sympathies with PedlingTon of cynic mien ? Or, Annand, he Avhose aAvl and all Your soles' chief care has been ? Or matrimonial Smilings, he Of twisted Venus fame ? Qr elongated Adams, Aich Viliiam is his name ? Or Cullen undertake ye ? Or Else the honest Sunckell ? Or Brother Morey, Teddy ? Do ■ ■ :.' . "Make room for your uncle?"' .' Oris it Henry Wagstaff, he• Of lengthy visage grim, . v . ■'. Whom Nonnanby asserted was * ! . The very man for him ? Who e'er it be, Sundowner says. Peel oil! and Avadc right in ; ' Pile A T otes on them,you likes best, Vich I 'opes the best A*ill vin."
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 118, 4 September 1877, Page 2
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193A BOROUGHED POEM. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 118, 4 September 1877, Page 2
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