Boyne
Sees Cromwell with them battle join
And William beat them at the Boyne.
William Pitt in eighteen-nought-nought
Ireland and England’s welfare sought
Act of Union 1800
By ‘Act of Union’ which he passed;
But still the wretched squabbles last.
George IV.
NOW come George Four and Will his brother;
With these two kings we need not bother;
William IV.
The first a gourmand, bon viveur,
The next a sailor, bluff, sans peur.
Trevithick, Newcomen, and Watt
Are names will never be forgot;
For their crude engines were the source
Of man’s control of Steam’s wild force.
Steam 1830
By eighteen-thirty man has tamed
Steam to his use; and widely famed
Was puffing ‘Rocket’ with the power
Of doing thirty miles an hour.
Steam prompts man to make machines
And Factories rise with all that means;