Social Commentaries

On the Removal of a Menagerie

by Thomas Hood 1799–1845

From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood

Social Commentaries

Let Exeter Change lament its change,
Its beasts and other losses--
Another place thrives by its case,
Now Charing has two Crosses.

MLA

Hood, Thomas. “On the Removal of a Menagerie.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/134/.

Chicago

Hood, Thomas. “On the Removal of a Menagerie.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/134/.

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