And visions float, like those that danced

Before my eyes, when George the Fourth,

Be-tartaned o’er, erewhile advanced

With knightly train, and quite entranced

The fondly-frantic North.

Again I see such glittering show,

Again such pageants gleam and go,

As well might form the golden theme

Of minstrel-song or morning-dream.

The last excursion formed, I ween,