One criticises till there comes a moment
When we can have no finger in the pie,
And all through our inaction.
T. M. Dron.
To pay, or not to pay: that was the question;
Whether ’twas best with one canal to suffer,
And trade to harass for the Frenchman’s fortune,
Or to take heart ’gainst this canal of troubles,
A scheme propose, and end them? To make it deep;