Attributes the famed Albert hat.
When the zeal for the Great Exhibition
Down to zero seemed likely to drop,
Mayors Provincial, at your requisition,
Of a sudden showed souls above shop.
Inspired up they went, like sky-rockets,
At the call of a Patriot Prince—
Nay, more, put their hands in their pockets
To a tune ne'er before known—nor since.
Foundation stones, past calculation,