Lightning Rod Agent + 

An agent with both smiles and nods, + 

Asked Jones to buy his lightning rods; + 

Said Jones, “You have made a blunder, + 

I fear not lightning but the thunder. + 

“Others you may go a frightening, + 

I tremble not at the lightning; + 

Those that are scared at them, I wonder, + 

But I own I dread the thunder.” + 

“I know,” said agent. “It is true, + 

Thunder’s most dangerous of the two”; + 

Said Jones, “Set me up thunder rods, + 

And from my mind it will take loads.” + 

Said agent, “Lightning easy glides, + 

O’er these brass tips it smoothly slides, + 

But when the thunder loudly rolls, + 

These nickel tips it soon controls. + 

But Jones, you are a man of sense, + 

You see thunder rods are more expense”; + 

Said Jones, “I care not for the cost, + 

Safety is what I prize the most.” + 

Said agent, “Biggest bolt of thunder + 

Will be harmless as coal cinder; + 

You then can smile while each explodes, + 

When we get up your thunder rods.” + 