Explore "Downward, Come Downward. (with Apologies to the Estate of Elizabeth Akers Allen.)" by Franklin P. Adams on Textopian.
Downward, come downward, O Cost in your flight, / Soaring like Paulhan or W. Wright! / Prices, come down from the limitless sky, / Down to the reach of the Ultimate Guy. / Once you were not quite so far from the ground; / Once we had lamb chops at 10c. a pound. / Give us the days ere the cost took a leap, / When things were cheap, mother, when they were cheap.
Backward, flow backward, O Living's Advance, / Back from the purlieus of Airy Romance! / Back to the days when a porterhouse steak / Didn't cost half of what people could make! / Back to the days when a regular egg / Didn't drive people to borrow and beg! / Oh, for the days when the hog and the sheep / Were not as diamonds -- when they were cheap.