Is a song all in praise of that primitive charity,

Which begins with sweet home, and which terminates there.

But sudden a tumult arose from a distance,

And in rushed a rabble with steel and with stone.

And ere the scared miller could call for assistance,

The mill to a million of atoms was blown.

Scarce mounted the fragments in ether to hurtle,

When the Quaker was vanished, no eye had seen where;

And the Scotchman thrown flat on his back, like a turtle,

Was sprawling and bawling, with heels in the air.