To Mr. Pierpont Morgan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIAJKLMNOPAQR SOTAUOOOOVOOAWXYXDZE A2YB2OC2OD2AOOAVQETQ TE2TOEOE2E2OTEAEF2

Dear Mr Pierpont MorganA
I hasten to give you a hearty British welcomeB
Come to my armsC
I am in the Trust line myselfD
That is to say I used to beE
Before people started putting up announcementsF
To the effect thatG
Poor Trust is deadH
Bad pay killed himI
Some day an I mistake not Mr MorganA
Your Trust will dieJ
All Trusts are grassK
Ponder itL
I am a political economist and I knowM
Meanwhile I am very pleased to thinkN
That we have amongst us a man of your financial prowessO
And purchasing powerP
There is a certain class of British personA
Who apparently goes in bodily fear of youQ
That class of person has groaned loudly over your steel exploitR
And he has groaned loudlier stillS
Over your purchase of the Leyland Line of SteamshipsO
To groan over a fair deal of any kindT
Appears to me my dear Mr Pierpont MorganA
To be an entirely stupid proceedingU
Nobody can come to grief by selling thingsO
Providing they sell them at the right priceO
You have bought the Leyland Line of SteamshipsO
I see no reason why you should not buy all the other linesO
If you want them and have the wherewithal to pay for themV
For in the long run everything comes to him who vendsO
You buy my steamships or my steelworksO
Or for that matter my caller herrin'A
I take your money I put it in your bankW
And live sumptuously on the interestX
You have all the troubleY
Inasmuch as you have to rake up the interestX
I sit at home and enjoy myselfD
You scheme and scheme and scheme and scheme and scheme and scheme and schemeZ
I am happyE
I hope you areA2
Between ourselves I should not trembleY
If you bought up Great Britain and Ireland especially IrelandB2
And all that in them isO
Providing always as I have said beforeC2
That you paid the priceO
Indeed I hope to live to see the dayD2
When Englishmen will cease to toil and spinA
And derive their incomesO
Wholly and solely from American dividendsO
Fools buy things my dear Mr Pierpont MorganA
Wise men sell themV
That is particularly trueQ
When the article involved happens to be poetryE
Nevertheless as you appear to be in a buying frame of mindT
I take this opportunity of informing youQ
That I have at my villa at HindheadT
A large and varied stockE2
Of sonnets odes rhymes jingles and what notT
Which I am prepared to sell at an enormous sacrificeO
My price to you for the lot would beE
Fifteen Million DollarsO
If you care to deal I undertake to melt your chequeE2
At your own bankE2
And to invest the proceeds in any concernsO
In which you happen to be interestedT
So that you would not only get the poetryE
But also your money back againA
This at any rate is how it seems to meE
ValeF2

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland



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