Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . .cri V-^ v \. -G? And Don and Sancho, Tramp and Tray,Upon the parlour steps collected, Wagged all their tails, and seemed to say. Our master knows you ; youre expected ! Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown, Uprose the Doctors winsome marrow;The lady laid her knittmg down, Her husband clasped his ponderous BarrowWhateer the strangers caste or creed, Pundit or papist, saint or found a stable for his steed. And welcome for himself, and dinner. If, when he re
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . .cri V-^ v \. -G? And Don and Sancho, Tramp and Tray,Upon the parlour steps collected, Wagged all their tails, and seemed to say. Our master knows you ; youre expected ! Uprose the Reverend Dr. Brown, Uprose the Doctors winsome marrow;The lady laid her knittmg down, Her husband clasped his ponderous BarrowWhateer the strangers caste or creed, Pundit or papist, saint or found a stable for his steed. And welcome for himself, and dinner. If, when he reached his journeys end. And warmed himself in court or college,He had not gained an honest friend. And twenty curious scraps of knowledge ;—If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor ;—Good sooth, the traveller was to blame. And not the \icarage or the \ica His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to rosesIt slipped from politics to puns : It passed from Mahomet to Moses :Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant ending with some precept deep. For d
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