TENNYSON AT BILLINGSGATE IN 1882.
(Apropos of the Ring of Wholesale Fish Dealers.)
TAKE! Take! Take!
Oh grabber of swag from the sea,
And I shouldn't quite like to utter
The thoughts that occur to me!
Oh, ill for the fisherman poor
That he toils for a trifle all day,
And ill for the much-diddled public
That has through the nose to pay.