Why, hoity toity!—he is fain,
So I’ll be cold and haughty!”
From Diversions of the Echo Club, by Bayard Taylor.
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A Tool of Trade.
(Imitated from Mrs. Browning’s “A Musical
Instrument.”) An Allegory on the Banks of
the—Pactolus, dedicated to the
London Water Companies.
What is he doing, the Middleman,
Down by Trade’s Golden River?
Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
Grubbing up grain with the greed of a goat,