"Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier—white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And, big with vengeance, beats the barber—black. In comes the brick-dust man. with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber—red; Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost."
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Christopher Smart, Soliloquy of the Princess Periwinkle in A Trip to Cambridge. See Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets, Volume VI, p. 185.
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