New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-11-16
HE artisans labor was cheaply sold,


TIE artisans labor cheaply sold,
His board was empty, bis hearth was cold
AS his heart was warm but twas chilled to behold
The strainng gaze OF his starving child,
Az its famished eye balls gauntiy rolled
And glared unearthly, wild;
But the heart Of The father was speedily cheered,
And the half-1,tered groan in his bosom was pent,
As the gIories before his mind appeared
Ofhis gracious Queen aad her Parliament.
His wife was young, and she had been fair
When she vowed, in toe presence OF God, to share
His joy and his leisure-his toll and his care,
AID her promise was kept, in The latter part
For the silver that shone through her dark brown
Ill matched with 80 young hra.t; hair
And the husbands heart would have burst;-but
twas said,
In the papers, q glorious amount had been sp4n,
For the purpose Of cIowni1g the royal maid
Hurrah for the Queen and the Parliament!
Gaunt Misery smiled as she grimly led, [tead,
Der the bodies That lived and the minds tina, were
Starvation and Ignorance, whom she had wed
To rule in her hideous realms ofwoe;
And she grinnsd 10 tbs width Of her suakel;ks head
At her vassels tina, writhed below.
In a nation il would be decidedly mean
To save; 80 Ambassadors quickly were cent
To hire Dutchman TO marry the Queen,
BY advice Of her Majssty's Parliament.
Still the artisan toied-toiled early and late,
He hoped against Hope, arr ne 'oed against Fate;
But the Nation ricb and the Queen was great,
And kind Heaven had blessed the glorious land J;
Still his child waxed lean, and ienae- his mate,
Yer he never could understand Scales
That 7 was wrong for Taxation 10 cheat with the
They bad fiched from blind Justice the pro-
eeeds were
For the use of his Royal Short Highness Of Wales
The pct of the National Parliament.
So the artisan shouted-he knew not why
Except I was TO join in the sepseless cry
OF his numberless fellows sufferers nigh,
Who, like him, were National Glory mad
And their hopes of the royal baby were high
For t rds all the HOPE they had;
But Reasons clear voice was heard in the crowd
lnquiring where oil the money went,
And asking if thus 'twould b. always allowed
To DO FILTERED away by the Parliament.
For man. stood amongst them who loved hi. kind,
He was blunt Of speech, but Of soul refined -
Dark inoubi rest on the popular mind,
And deadon its mighty and siumbering WILL
But lever 10 raise oil these evils combined
Can be made Of g gray goose quill.
For his purpose is strong and his tongue Is Free
And on serving fair Truth he is earnestly bent,
Who requires him TO speak most irreverently
OF the laws OF the worshipfnl Parliament.
And the truthful voice of the minstrel wes heard
BY his brethren, who ponderet on every word;
For, though pomp maj be glorious, they can't well
afford
Such fun to be wrung from their daily bread,
And men love not, o'ea the softest side Of a board
To rest on, who We toiled for bed
Slowly plain Truth in their midst appears,
Then brutal Oppression crushed smiling Content
And the voice of wrongcd Nature rung loud in the
OF the wise and infallible Parliament. lears
"Ths powers that be-" heard the people rail
And curse their foul wrongs; bur the story grew
stale,
For what earthly right had the base ccnndiAe
To complain Of the weight Of their iron rod
While Royalty g right is divine by entail
And ,hese things arc arranged "by the grace Of
"God is insuIted," tho people say, (God7'
And the air by the uumpet-like echo is rent,
"When His Image is crushed through its prison Of
clay,
By pampsred and blasphemous Parliament"
Oct 9o.h. 1874 c.
E Elliott ESQ. Tho Com Law Rhymer.'
tisscafcey to that the exeons of this
tnan commenced years before the advent of tho Prince
Waea The writer has no better defence than the rhymns
privilege for the outrage chronology contained In this