MR. MOLONY'S ACCOUNT OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE. [From "Punch."]

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 563, 6 September 1851, Page 3

MR. MOLONY'S ACCOUNT OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE. [From " Punch."]

With ganial foire There's statues bright Thranstuse my loyre, 01 maible white Ye sacred nymptiis of Pindus, Of silver and of copper ; The whoilo I sing And some in zinc, The vrondthcous thing, And some, I think, The Palace made o' windows ! That isn't over proper. Say, Paxton, truth, There's staym Ingynes, Thou woudthrous youth, Th.it stands in lines, What sthroke ot ait celestial, Enormous and amazing, What power was lint That squeal and suoit. You to invint Like whales in sport, This combineetion cristial. Or elephants a-grazing. 0 would before There's carts and gigs, That Thomas Moore, And pins for pigs ; Like woise the late Lord Boyron, Theie's dibblers aud theie's Thim aigles sthroiig liarrows, 01 godlike song, And ploughs like toys Cast 01 on that cast oiron ! For little boys, And illgant wheel-bairows. And saw thim walls, And glittering halls, For them genteels Thim rising sleudther columns, Who ride on wheels, Which 1 pool pote, There's plenty to indulge 'em ; Could not denote, There's Dioskys snug No, not in twnity vollums. From Payter&bug, And vayhycles fiom Bulgum. My Muse's words Is like the birds [there; There's Cabs on Stands That roosts beneath the panes AudShandthiydanns; Her wings bhe spoils There's >\ aggons trom New York 'Gainst tliem bright tiles, here ; Andcrackshersilly bramsthere. There's Lapland Sleighs m • t> i - »ii Have ciossed the says, SSSS.I, AndJauntingCyarshomCorlc Which Imperors might covet, Stf »ds m High Park Amazed r Like Noah s Ark, v Uss l t0 j A rainbow bint above it. Detailed I survey 'em ; The towers and fanes, li>re! > 11 w ondthors grows In other scenes, r «, efore m , e llo \% The fame ot this will undo, In * llls sublime Musayum ! Saint Paul's big doom, Saint Payther"s Room, L°°k here's a fan And Dublin's proud Itotundo. From far Japau, A sabre from Damasco ; 'Tis here that roams, There's bhawlb ye get Ab w ell becomes pi om iar Thibet , Her digmtee and stations, _^ nc i cotton prints from GlasVictona Great, ' g O w. And houlds in state The Congress of the Nations. There's German flutes, »jK? CdnajlanS: SasSohay ; HerMngdoins three, ™onla h « *^™ S ' Attind with our allagiance. gran j te fl . [ntg Here comes likewise, That's quite imramse, Her bould allies, Theie's sacks of coals and fuels, Both Asian and European; There's swoids and guvs, From Aist and West And soap in tuns, They send their best And Gmgcr-bread and Jewels. To iiU her Cooruucopean. There's taypots there, I seen (thank Grace ') And canuonb rare , Tins wondthrous place Theio's coirins filled with loses ; (His Noble Honour Mibthor There's canvas tints, H. Cole it was Teeth iiibthrummts, That gave the pass, And shuits ot clothes by Moses. And let me see what is theie). There's lashius more With conscioui proid oi things in store, 1 stud msoide [Fair in, Q ni tlnm I don't remimber; And looked the Woild's Great j>J"or could disclose Until my sight j)^ i compose Was dazzled quite, From May time to Novimber ! And couldn't see for staring. Theie's holy saints, fh Judythi u ! And window paints, T , v u^ vere heio to view it I By Maydiay val Pugin ; - 1 l J ° ould 1 screw Alhamboiough Jones £ d tv Did paint the toneb .^ j ld lhralt > ou t 0 it , Of yellow and gambouge in. 1U ' There's fountains there So let us raise And crosses i<m ; Victoria's praise, There's water-gods with urrns; And Alberts proud condition, Theio's oigans three, Tint takes his ayse To play, d'jesee, [turrns. As he biirvays " God save the Quetn," by| This Ciistial lii-lubition.