As the universe spreads its flaming wall,
Take all the pleasure of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,
One Winter at Vernon is worth them all!
while, in setting forth the attractions of the Lily Langtry Tract, the promoter drew as follows from the store of English verse:
Sweet Vernon, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheers the laboring swain,
Where smiling Spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting Summer's lingering blooms delayed;
concluding the announcement with the following lines characteristic of the times: