Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Time, Instruments, Technology, Accidents, Patronage

    Notes that 'what Denison makes seems to turn out but ill: / There's a flaw in his bell, and a dent in his will'. The last line refers to his design of the now-cracked bell for the Houses of Parliament, 'Big Ben', and his inheritance of a large sum of money from the chronometer maker, Edward J Dent.