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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 930, 30 January 1871, Page 3

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MR. VOGEL AS A VOCALIST. When other loans and further waste The public debt shall swell To figures whose precise amount No human power can tell; When bankruptcy and ruin stand In no remote degree Impending this devoted land Then you'll remember mc. When to the present heavy debt Four millions more are tacked, (Unless, misguided, you should set Your veto on the Act) ; When taxes for the interest Shall most oppressive be, It may be pretty shrewdly guessed That you'll remember inc. When times are bad, with care oppressed, You'll wonder at the skill I've shewn in feathering a nest To fly to when I will, I guess you'll " wish you were a bird," Of like dexterity To " gull" the people ;—in a word, Then you'll remember me. A few years' more extravagance And senseless waste shall show The money market at a glance— Your credit precious low: The Land Fund and the Jetty Dues Seized by the mortgagee, And everybody in the blues, — Then you'll remember me. When property won't sell for pence, When goods won't sell at all, Wlten trade is dead, and confidence Is tottering to its fall; When Nemesis, avenging fate, Proclaims her stern decree, You wish you could " absquatulate," Then you'll remember me ! —Dunedin Echo.