Have placed your poor, your pitiable few:

There, in one house, throughout their lives to be,

The pauper-palace which they hate to see:

That giant-building, that high-bounding wall,

Those bare-worn walks, that lofty thund’ring hall,

That large loud clock, which tolls each dreaded hour,

Those gates and locks, and all those signs of power;

It is a prison, with a milder name,

Which few inhabit without dread or shame.

Be it agreed - the Poor who hither come