Versos English James Miller Dunbar

English poem

Dunbar

by (1860–1947)

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My precious gormandizers, thus you come; Oh! cannot your Pie-powder Court supply ye.— (I’ve heard that ye will fatten on a bell-rope,) [Aside. Has corporation dinners eat all up, That thus you beard us in the face of war With dread starvation, ere the fight’s begun? [The MAYOR, who is a tall slender-looking man, standing erect.