And seaside bathing compassed your decline!
“Sherry” and Siddons, Hannah the pedantic,
Fielding and Walpole, how your annals shine!—
Immortal Jane, and Herschel counting bars
And drilling fiddlers—and discovering stars.
Yet even when your vogue was slowly waning
Rich sunset splendours lingered on the scene,
When Sultan Beckford in your midst was reigning
And lending you an Oriental mien;
When D’Arblay, loyal to her haunts remaining,