The Crystal Palace

  With ganial foire
  Thransfuse me loyre,
Ye sacred nympths of Pindus,
  The whoile I sing
  That wondthrous thing,
The Palace made o' windows!

  Say, Paxton, truth,
  Thou wondthrous youth,
What sthroke of art celistial,
  What power was lint
  You to invint
This combineetion cristial.

  O would before
  That Thomas Moore,
Likewoise the late Lord Boyron,
  Thim aigles sthrong
  Of godlike song,
Cast oi on that cast oiron!

  And saw thim walls,
  And glittering halls,
Thim rising slendther columns,
  Which I poor pote,
  Could not denote,
No, not in twinty vollums.

  My Muse's words
  Is like the bird's
That roosts beneath the panes there;
  Her wing she spoils
  'Gainst them bright toiles,
And cracks her silly brains there.

  This Palace tall,
  This Cristial Hall,
Which Imperors might covet,
  Stands in High Park
  Like Noah's Ark,
A rainbow bint above it.

  The towers and fanes,
  In other scaynes,
The fame of this will undo,
  Saint Paul's big doom,
  Saint Payther's Room,
And Dublin's proud Rotundo.

  'Tis here that roams,
  As well becomes
Her dignitee and stations,
  Victoria Great,
  And houlds in state
The Congress of the Nations.

  Her subjects pours
  From distant shores,
Her Injians and Canajians;
  And also we,
  Her kingdoms three,
Attind with our allagiance.

  Here come likewise
  Her bould allies,
Both Asian and Europian;
  From East and West
  They send their best
To fill her Coornucopean.

  I seen (thank Grace!)
  This wonthrous place
(His Noble Honor Misther
  H. Cole it was
  That gave the pass,
And let me see what is there).

  With conscious proide
  I stud insoide
And look'd the World's Great Fair in,
  Until me sight
  Was dazzled quite,
And couldn't see for staring.

  There's holy saints
  And window paints,
By Maydiayval Pugin;
  Alhamborough Jones
  Did paint the tones
Of yellow and gambouge in.

  There's fountains there
  And crosses fair;
There's water-gods with urrns:
  There's organs three,
  To play, d'ye see?
"God save the Queen," by turrns.

  There's Statues bright
  Of marble white,
Of silver, and of copper;
  And some in zinc,
  And some, I think,
That isn't over proper.

  There's staym Ingynes,
  That stands in lines,
Enormous and amazing,
  That squeal and snort
  Like whales in sport,
Or elephants a-grazing.

  There's carts and gigs,
  And pins for pigs,
There's dibblers and there's harrows.
  And ploughs like toys
  For little boys,
And ilegant wheelbarrows.

  For thim genteels
  Who ride on wheels,
There's plenty to indulge 'em:
  There's Droskys snug
  From Paytersbug,
And vayhycles from Bulgium.

  There's Cabs on Stands
  And Shandthry danns;
There's Waggons from New York here;
  There's Lapland Sleighs
  Have cross'd the seas,
And Jaunting Cyars from Cork here.

  Amazed I pass
  From glass to glass,
Deloighted I survey 'em;
  Fresh wondthers grows
  Before me nose
In this sublime Musayum!

  Look, here's a fan
  From far Japan,
A sabre from Damasco:
  There's shawls ye get
  From far Thibet,
And cotton prints from Glasgow.

  There's German flutes,
  Marocky boots,
And Naples Macaronies;
  Bohaymia
  Has sent Bohay;
Polonia her polonies.

  There's granite flints
  That's quite imminse,
There's sacks of coals and fuels,
  There's swords and guns,
  And soap in tuns,
And Gingerbread and Jewels.

  There's taypots there,
  And cannons rare;
There's coffins fill'd with roses;
  There's canvas tints,
  Teeth insthrumints,
And shuits of clothes by MOSES.

  There's lashins more
  Of things in store,
But thim I don't remimber;
  Nor could disclose
  Did I compose
From May time to Novimber!

  Ah, JUDY thru!
  With eyes so blue,
That you were here to view it!
  And could I screw
  But tu pound tu,
'Tis I would thrait you to it!

  So let us raise
  Victoria's praise,
And Albert's proud condition,
  That takes his ayse
  As he surveys
This Cristial Exhibition.

1851.