To move the door that bars his way;
A lecture from his dad he’ll catch;
“We rode all night” has had its day!
“We rode all night” has had its day!
While he knows that the tale has too often been told,
He stands there still trying and shivering with cold.
R. P. Hind, “Harberton,” Torquay.
Wheeling Annual, 1885.
——:o:——
THE BALLAD OF “ORIANA.”