But the woodpecker tapping the hollow beech-tree.

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T. Moore.


The Taxgatherer’s Knocking.

I knew by the wig that so gracefully curl’d

Above a high cape, that the Regent was there,

And I said, if there’s ton to be found in the world,

The Dandy of fashion will look for it here—

Half the shops were shut up, and I heard not a sound,