The soft susurrant sigh, and gently-murmuring kiss.

So thy dark arches, London Bridge, bestride

Indignant Thames, and part his angry tide,

There oft—returning from those green retreats,

Where fair Vauxhallia decks her sylvan seats;—

Where each spruce nymph, from city compters free,

Sips the froth'd syllabub, or fragrant tea;

While with sliced ham, scraped beef, and burnt champagne,

Her 'prentice lover soothes his amorous pain;

There oft, in well-trimm'd wherry, glide along