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Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles / On his byles; / Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the crow / Come and go; / Where the merchant deals in indigo and tea, / Hides and ghi; / Where the Babu drops inflammatory hints / In his prints; / Stands a City -- Charnock chose it -- packed away / Near a Bay -- / By the Sewage rendered fetid, by the sewer / Made impure, / By the Sunderbunds unwholesome, by the swamp / Moist and damp; / And the City and the Viceroy, as we see, / Don't agree.
Once, two hundred years ago, the trader came / Meek and tame.