The Periwinkles And The Locusts. A Salmagundian Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme

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To Panurge was assigned the Laird ship of Salmagundi which was yearly worth ryals besides the revenue of the Locusts and Periwinkles amounting one year with another to the value of etc RABELAIS	A
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Hurra hurra I heard them say	A
And they cheered and shouted all the way	A
As the Laird of Salmagundi went	B
To open in state his Parliament	C
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The Salmagundians once were rich	D
Or thought they were no matter which	D
For every year the Revenue	E
From their Periwinkles larger grew	E
And their rulers skilled in all the trick	F
And legerdemain of arithmetic	F
Knew how to place	A
and and	G
Such various ways behind before	H
That they made a unit seem a score	H
And proved themselves most wealthy men	I
So on they went a prosperous crew	E
The people wise the rulers clever	J
And God help those like me and you	E
Who dared to doubt as some now do	E
That the Periwinkle Revenue	E
Would thus go flourishing on for ever	J
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Hurra hurra I heard them say	A
And they cheered and shouted all the way	A
As the Great Panurge in glory went	B
To open his own dear Parliament	C
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But folks at length began to doubt	K
What all this conjuring was about	K
For every day more deep in debt	L
They saw their wealthy rulers get	L
Let's look said they the items thro'	J
And see if what we're told be true	J
Of our Periwinkle Revenue	J
But lord they found there wasn't a tittle	M
Of truth in aught they heard before	J
For they gained by Periwinkles little	M
And lost by Locusts ten times more	J
These Locusts are a lordly breed	N
Some Salmagundians love to feed	N
Of all the beasts that ever were born	O
Your Locust most delights in corn	O
And tho' his body be but small	P
To fatten him takes the devil and all	P
Oh fie oh fie was now the cry	J
As they saw the gaudy show go by	J
As the Laird of Salmagundi went	B
To open his Locust Parliament	C

Thomas Moore

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