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This vacuous, clattering spectacle / Has collected the heart-beats of a nation.
Greed, like a gorged Machiavelli, / Slumps down in the green plush seat / And wonders whether it has not blundered, / While a sentimental song, / Like a kindly infant, / Interferes with the clink of coins.