"They us'd to sit from night till morn; and how they talk'd away!
"But now they sit from morn till night: oh! what a 'Settling Day!'
"They've London pull'd about one's ears; 'tis London now no more;
"They've swallow'd up poor Swallow Street; behind is now before;
"They've metamorphos'd Charing Cross; the Mews has pass'd away,
"And Lewkner's Lane I seek in vain: 't has had its 'Settling Day.'
"St. Dunstan's Church they've built anew; oh! what a Gothic feat!
"The Savages, who beat the Bells, have beaten a retreat;
"They've built another London Bridge; the old one's clear'd away;
"For such destructive knaves I wish a speedy 'Settling Day.'