the evil cart

This was the cart
that lay hard by the surgeon-barber's table on HMS Bellerophon.
This was the cart
that collected the dead at Culloden.
This was the cart
that wheeled the baker, who happened to remark that perhaps the soldiers should pay for their bread, to the guillotine.
This was the cart
that was pulled by young children in the dark of a coal mine.
This was the cart
that carried away the corpses of the plague victims.
This was the cart
that Boudicca's daughters were tied to.