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Mackay's hot wrath to Bonynge direful spring	A
Of blows unnumbered heavenly goddess sing	A
That wrath which hurled to Hellman's office floor	B
Two heroes mutually smeared with gore	B
Whose hair in handfuls marked the dire debate	C
And riven coat tails testified their hate	C
Sing muse what first their indignation fired	D
What words augmented it by whom inspired	D
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First the great Bonynge comes upon the scene	E
And asks the favor of the British Queen	E
Suppliant he stands and urges all his claim	F
His wealth his portly person and his name	F
His habitation in the setting sun	G
As child of nature and his suit he won	G
No more the Sovereign wearied with his plea	H
From slumber's chain her faculties can free	H
Low and more low the royal eyelids creep	I
She gives the assenting nod and falls asleep	I
Straightway the Bonynges all invade the Court	J
And telegraph the news to every port	J
Beneath the seas red hot the tidings fly	K
The cables crinkle and the fishes fry	K
The world awaking like a startled bat	L
Exclaims 'A Bonynge What the devil's that '	-
Mackay meanwhile to envy all attent	L
Untaught to spare unable to relent	L
Walks in our town on needles and on pins	M
And in a mean revengeful spirit grins	M
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Sing muse what next to break the peace occurred	L
What act uncivil what unfriendly word	L
The god of Bosh ascending from his pool	N
Where since creation he has played the fool	N
Clove the blue slush as other gods the sky	K
And waiting but a moment's space to dry	K
Touched Bonynge with his finger tip 'O son '	-
He said 'alike of nature and a gun	G
Knowest not Mackay's insufferable sin	O
Hast thou not heard that he doth stand and grin	O
Arise assert thy manhood and attest	L
The uncommercial spirit in thy breast	L
Avenge thine honor for by Jove I swear	P
Thou shalt not else be my peculiar care '	-
He spake and ere his worshiper could kneel	Q
Had dived into his slush pool head and heel	Q
Full of the god and to revenges nerved	L
And conscious of a will that never swerved	L
Bonynge set sail the world beyond the wave	R
As gladly took him as the other gave	R
New York received him but a shudder ran	S
Through all the western coast which knew the man	S
And science said that the seismic action	G
Was owing to an asteroid's impaction	G
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O goddess sing what Bonynge next essayed	L
Did he unscabbard the avenging blade	L
The long spear brandish and porrect the shield	L
Havoc the town and devastate the field	L
His sacred thirst for blood did he allay	T
By halving the unfortunate Mackay	T
Small were the profit and the joy to him	U
To hew a base born person limb from limb	U
Let vulgar souls to low revenge incline	G
That of diviner spirits is divine	G
Bonynge at noonday stood in public places	V
And with regard to the Mackays made faces	V
Before those formidable frowns and scowls	V
The dogs fled tail tucked with affrighted howls	V
And horses terrified with flying feet	L
O'erthrew the apple stands along the street	L
Involving the metropolis in vast	L
Financial ruin Man himself aghast	L
Retreated east and west and north and south	W
Before the menace of that twisted mouth	W
Till Jove in answer to their prayers sent Night	L
To veil the dreadful visage from their sight	L
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Such were the causes of the horrid strife	X
The mother wrongs which nourished it to life	X
O for a quill from an archangel's wing	A
O for a voice that's adequate to sing	A
The splendor and the terror of the fray	T
The scattered hair the coat tails all astray	T
The parted collars and the gouts of gore	B
Reeking and smoking on the banker's floor	B
The interlocking limbs embraces dire	Y
Revolving bodies and deranged attire	Z
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Vain vain the trial 'tis vouchsafed to none	G
To sing two millionaires rolled into one	G
My hand and pen their offices refuse	V
And hoarse and hoarser grows the weary muse	V
Alone remains to tell of the event	L
Abandoned lost and variously rent	L
The Bonynge nethermost habiliment	L

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