Social Commentaries
On Mrs. Parkes's Pamphlet
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
Such strictures as these
Could a learned Chinese
Only read on some fine afternoon,
He would cry with pale lips,
"We shall have an Eclipse,
For a Dragon has seized on the Moon!"
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Hood, Thomas. “On Mrs. Parkes's Pamphlet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/160/.
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Hood, Thomas. “On Mrs. Parkes's Pamphlet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/160/.
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