To sing together till they scare the walls

Of old St. Paul’s,

Sitting in red, grey, green, blue, drab, and white,

Some say a gratifying sight,

Tho’ I think sad—but that’s a schism—

To witness so much pauperism—

Suppose, I say, the Bishop then, to make

In this poor overcrowded world more room,

Proposed to shake

Down that immense extinguisher, the dome—