This model so splendid one night was burn'd down,
When, lo! the next day, 'twas announced to the town
That the damage had all been repair'd and put straight,
In time for the next zoological fête.
Then who is there henceforth will venture to say
That Rome cannot sometimes be built in a day.
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN ASSES UNDER THE
NEW TARIFF.
Oh! what on earth induced Sir Robert Peel
Such wondrous sympathy to feel
For that unprofitable class—the foreign ass?