<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416106" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prophecy of a Ten Ton Cheese</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In presenting this delicate, dainty morsel to the imagination of the people, I believed that it could be realized. I viewed the machine that turned and raised the mamoth cheese, and saw the powerful machine invented by James Ireland at the West Oxford companies factory to turn the great and fine cheese he was making there. This company with but little assistance could produce a ten ton cheese.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Who hath prophetic vision sees<br>In future times a ten ton cheese,<br>Several companies could join<br>To furnish curd for great combine<br>More honor far than making gun<br>Of mighty size and many a ton.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Machine it could be made with ease<br>That could turn this monster cheese,<br>The greatest honour to our land<br>Would be this orb of finest brand,<br>Three hundred curd they would need squeeze<br>For to make this mammoth cheese.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So British lands could confederate<br>Three hundred provinces in one state,<br>When all in harmony agrees<br>To be pressed in one like this cheese,<br>Then one skillful hand could acquire<br>Power to move British empire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But various curds must be combined<br>And each factory their curd must grind,<br>To blend harmonious in one<br>This great cheese of mighty span,<br>And uniform in quality<br>A glorious reality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it will need a powerful press<br>This cheese queen to caress,<br>And a large extent of charms<br>Hoop will encircle in its arms,<br>And we do not now despair,<br>But we shall see it at world's fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And view the people all agog, so<br>Excited o'er it in Chicago,<br>To seek fresh conquests queen of cheese<br>She may sail across the seas,<br>Where she would meet reception grand<br>From the warm hearts in old England.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416106" data-title="Prophecy of a Ten Ton Cheese de James McIntyre" data-description="In presenting this delicate, dainty morsel to the imagination of the people, I believed that it could be realized. I viewed the machine that turned and raised the mamoth cheese, and saw the powerful machine invented by James Ireland at the West Ox..."></div> </div> </div>

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