Dandies and poets and loungers here stroll about,

Dignified dowagers bask in Bath-chairs!

The Colonel.

Though cynics swear all pleasures fade,

And cry, O tempora mutantur!

The bonny laughing Light Brigade,

Still on the King's Road gaily canter!

And yet upon the Lawns and Pier,

Do lots of pleasant folk commingle:

While still the old, old song we hear—