THE MODERN LADY GODIVA.
I journeyed by the train to Coventry;
I pleased a groom with porter near the bridge,
And asked which way the pageant came; and then
I saw it pass—'twas passing strange—and this
Is what they've turned the City's legend to.
Not even were it to remove a tax
Could a Godiva ride abroad to-day
As she rode forth a thousand summers back:
Lord Campbell's Act, and Collette both forbid!