SELECTED POETRY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 187, 10 June 1873, Page 7

SELECTED POETRY.

♦ ?ortHE DRAPER'S PETITION. By Thomas Hood. are fthe sorrows of a class of men, fho, though they bow to fashion and frivolity, le s, fancied claims, or woes fictitious, pen, lut Wrongs, ell wide, and of a lasting quality, for itessed and discontented with our lot, th« & on & the clamorous we take our Btation ; mat of ribbonmen, yet there is not ■ me piece of Irish in our agitation. do revere her Majesty the Queen, for fe venerate her glorious Constitution, joy King William's advent should have been, ie • ind only want a counter revolution. , j love the sex, to serve them is a bliss ; ' e (Ve trust they find us civil, never Burl\|; i y- 1 that we hope of female friends is this, 3S, [hat their last linen will be wanted early. nn , who can tell the miseries of men ial ia * serve * fte ver y cheapest shops in town, • 1, faint and weary, they knock off at ten, Knocked up by ladies beating of 'em down, be ,|has not Hamlet his opinion given >rt (Oh! Hamlet had a heart for draper's servants !) ii- ut custom is—say custom after seven— JO Jlore honoured in the breach than the observance. W i! come then, gentle ladies, come in time; al O'erwhelm our counters and unload our shelves, irment us all unto the seventh chime, n But let us have the remnant to ourselves. 'elong for thoughts of intellectual kind, And not to go bewildered to our beds 'j ith stuffs and fustians taking up the mind, U And pins and needles running in our heads, ill, sick with toil and lassitude extreme, •' We often think when we are dull and vapoury he bliss of Paradise was so supreme Because that Adam did not deal in drapery.