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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WALL STREET WAIL, by ENID CRAWFORD PIERCE
First Line: Up and down where wall street is a - rumbling
Last Line: But -- let this woolly lamb escape the shearing.
Subject(s): Wall Street, New York City
First Line: Up and down where wall street is a - rumbling
Last Line: But -- let this woolly lamb escape the shearing.
Subject(s): Wall Street, New York City
Up and down where Wall Street is a-rumbling,
Grim and gruff, the gory bears go growling,
Tearing trade to tatters, every tumbling
Horrors down upon the horde that's howling.
Up and down, too, devious paths a-weaving,
Burly, battered bulls go stamping, stalking,
Hopeful horns impatient for the heaving,
When our debt commissions finish talking.
Lowly little lambkins are a-frisking,
Midst great hooves and claws are nibbling, nipping;
Timid tiny tails forever whisking,
Where angels fear to tread they're blithely skipping.
A rare request I'll make in this connection, --
Gods of the ticker, pray you, grant me hearing, --
I am a fool to think I rate protection,
But -- let this woolly lamb escape the shearing.
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