“Especially confined to this favour’d locality.
Then he spoke of St. Thomas’s tottering steeple,
And the need of a church for the Cemetery people:
“Much money is wanted, but little is found;
“Will you suffer God’s Temple to fall to the ground?
“Let the Town Hall and such useless fabrics be floor’d,
“But let not my Church and your vestry be lower’d;
“I claim your support and your very best wishes,
“For the sake of the long lost loaves and fishes.”
And now comes the toast, the toast of the day,