Social Commentaries
On the Depreciated Money
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
They may talk of the plugging and sweating,
Of our coinage that's minted of gold,
But to me it produces no fretting
Of its shortness of weight to be told:
All the sov'reigns I'm able to levy
As to lightness can never be wrong,
But must surely be some of the heavy,
For I never can carry them long.
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Hood, Thomas. “On the Depreciated Money.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/159/.
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Hood, Thomas. “On the Depreciated Money.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/159/.
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