قراءة كتاب Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 3, 1895

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 3, 1895

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class="c6">All fearless on their darkling beat,
With sound of heavy-sandalled feet
Wake awesome echoes in the street;

When weary chapmen go their ways
To halls of song or sit at gaze
In front of elevating plays;

Or haply drop into the club,
And pausing for a friendly rub
Defy the deadly nuptial snub;

Or watch in fond paternal mood
The slumber of their infant brood
In some suburban neighbourhood:—

Then, Julia, then, at such an hour
I gather that you quit your bower
And seek the purlieus of the Tower;

Encased in wanton breeks and wide,
A solid regiment, you ride
With swains revolving at your side;

By stilly thoroughfares you strike
Th' astonied silence with your bike;
Earth never yet hath seen the like!

Not she, that fair of whom they sing,
Who wrought her city's ransoming,
Godiva dared so bold a thing.

High Heaven alone sees such a sight
When Dian wheels her orb by night
With many a starry satellite.

But, Julia, though the mode decree,
By all the rites of Battersea,
That you career in company,

The conscious object of remark,
Whenas the lusty-throated lark
Disporteth o'er the People's Park;

Yet certes it were more discreet,
When Hesper from his vantage-seat
Illuminateth Cannon Street,

To ride with none but me to know
Just how th' enamoured breezes blow
Round your ineffable trousseau!

How say you, sweet? To-morrow, then,
We assignate for half-past ten
Upon the punctual stroke of Ben?

On Cupid's chaste commission bent
We twain will meet, with your consent,
10.30, by the Monument.