XXIV + 

It was the time when wholesale dealers close + 

Their shutters with a moody sense of wealth, + 

But retail dealers, diligent, let loose + 

The gas (objected to on score of health), + 

Convey’d in little solder’d pipes by stealth, + 

And make it flare in many a brilliant form, + 

That all the powers of darkness it repell’th, + 

Which to the oil-trade doth great scaith and harm, + 

And supersedeth quite the use of the glow-worm. + 