Shamed the still air about it, or obscured

Its every view. Is it to be endured,

O much-enduring Briton? There be those

Who'd scrawl advertisements of Hogs or Hose

Across the sun-disc as it flames at noon,

Or daub the praise of Pickles o'er the moon.

Unmoved by civic pride, unchecked by taste,

They 'd smear the general sky with poster's paste

And at Dan Phoebus seem to "take a sight."

Colossal bottles blot the air, to tell