Peom about Notes & Queries

Sprague's Journal of Maine History
No.  II
Vol.  VII
AUG. SEPT. OCT 1919
pages 106-107

In that well known English literary and historical store house, 
"Notes and Queries," published in London, in one of its numbers 
for July, 1856, a writer contributes an old doggerel (parody on Moore's 
Those Evening Bells) written years before, when an income tax even in 
England was a new idea, and which many readers today may appreciate, as follows:

That Income Tax!  That Income Tax!
How every clause my boor brain racks,
How dear was that sweet time to me,
Ere first I heard of Schedule B.

Those untaxed joys are passed away,
And many a heart that then was gay
Lies sleeping 'neath the turf in packs, 
And cares not for the Income Tax.

And so 'twill be when I am gone,
That "Candid Peel" will still tax on,
And other bards shall sadly ax
"Why not repeal the Income Tax?"


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