By levying on Field-Signs a fine or duty?
Good gracious! what are meadows, rocks and trees
Compared with the necessity—absolute, Sir!—
Of advertising Silks and Soaps and Teas,
Popkins's Pickles, Boodle's Bottled Fruit, Sir?
Or how should he King Mammon's heavy hand 'scape
Who'd sacrifice great £ s. d. to—Landscape?
A Nuisance? Nonsense!!! Posters and Placards,
In field or forest, serve the Public better
Than all the blatant bosh of bleating bards.