THE OWNERS OF THE UNIVERSE,
Let us corner up the sunbeams Lying ail around our path : Get a trust on wheat and roses, Give the poor the thorns and chaff. Let us find our chiefest pleasure Hoarding bounties of today. So the poor shall have scant measure. And two prices have to pay. Yes ; we’ll reservoir the rivers, And we’ll levy on the lakes, And we’ll lay a trifling toll—tax On each poor mail who partakes ; We’ll brand his number on him That he’ll carry through his life ; We’ll apprentice all his children, Get a mortgage on his wife. We will capture e’en the wind-god, And confine him in a cave ; And then, through our patent process We the atmosphere will save ; Thus we’ll squeeze our little brother When he tries his lungs to fill, Put a meter on his wind-pipe And present our little bill. We will syndicate the starlight, And monopolise the moon ! Claim a royalty on rest days, A proprietary noon ; For right of way through ocean’s spray We’il pay just what it’s worth ; We’ll drive our stakes around the lakes— In I'act, we’ll own the earth,
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 170, 4 November 1892, Page 6
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190THE OWNERS OF THE UNIVERSE, Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 170, 4 November 1892, Page 6
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