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Robert Stewart Castlereagh

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Quest.—Why is a Pump like Viscount Castlereagh?
Answ.—Because it is a slender thing of wood,
That up and down its awkward arm doth sway,
And coolly spout, and spout, and spout away,
In one weak, washy, everlasting flood!
--
Thomas Moore, Poem What's My Thought Like?

 
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