So long. . ToC
At the beginning of the twelfth century,—whether in the reign of Henry the First,
or Stephen is uncertain,—a fifth gate was added to the four principal entrances
of the city of London; then, it is almost needless to say, surrounded by ramparts,
moats, and other defences. I make no apology for not being with you now. “I wrote it for you. She roves the blue fields of the North, with
the clean North Wind on her lips and her blonde head jewelled with frost—
mocking valour and hardihood! Out of the West she comes, riding the great ships
and the endless steel ways that encompass the earth, and smoke comes with her
and the glare of furnace fires—commerce! From the East she brings strange
words upon her tongue and strange raiment upon her shoulders and the perfume
of myrrh—antiquity! But oh! when she springs from the South, her rosy feet
trailing the lotus, ripe lequats wreathing her head, in one hand the bright torch of
danger and in the other the golden apples of love, with her eyes full of sapphires
and her mouth full of pearls!
"With her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls. There MULSACK and SWIFTNECK, both prigs from their birth,
OLD MOB and TOM COX took their last draught on earth:
There RANDAL, and SHORTER, and WHITNEY pulled up,
And jolly JACK JOYCE drank his finishing cup!
For a can of ale calms,
A highwayman's qualms,
And makes him sing blithely his dolorous psalms
And nothing the transit to Tyburn beguiles
So well as a draught from the Bowl of Saint Giles!
"Singing's dry work," observed the stranger, pausing to take a pull at the bottle. For a
moment he did not recognize Annabel. ‘That’s a loud one. I want to enrich it with hangings and gladden it with verses. I told her I was sick
today and she told me to get over myself.
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