Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . CHIGWELL : OK, ANNOS. School, that in Burfords honoured timeReared me to youths elastic prime From childhoods airy slumbers—School, at whose antique shrine I bow,Sexagenarian pilgrim now. Accept a poets numbers. Those yew-trees never seem to grow :The village stands /// statu quo, Without a single new house ;But, heavens ! how shrunk ! how very small !Tis a mere step from Urmstones town, to Morgans brewhouse. There in yon rough-cast mansi
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . CHIGWELL : OK, ANNOS. School, that in Burfords honoured timeReared me to youths elastic prime From childhoods airy slumbers—School, at whose antique shrine I bow,Sexagenarian pilgrim now. Accept a poets numbers. Those yew-trees never seem to grow :The village stands /// statu quo, Without a single new house ;But, heavens ! how shrunk ! how very small !Tis a mere step from Urmstones town, to Morgans brewhouse. There in yon rough-cast mansion dweltSage Denham, Galens son, who dealt In squills and cream of tartar ;Fronting the room where now I dineBeneath thy undulating sign. Peak-bearded Charles the Martyr !146 r-,. -:©4--^ X \ •r. (. /i T>,. <^
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