The late Robins himself, in despite his vocation,

Would have deemed this a station

Unworthy laudation,

And have probably termed it “a blot on the nation.”

In a lane hard by,

Where the hedge-rows high,

Veil with their leafy boughs the sky,

Biding their time, sits his worship the Mayor,

Master Zachary Blair,

And my Lord Dandelion,