I can scorn and let her go;

If in poverty she be,

She may go to Bath for me!

From The White Pilgrim, and other Poems. By Herman Charles Merivale. London, Chapman & Hall, 1883.

(By the Author’s kind permission.)

——:o:——

The Cockney Shepheard to his Love.

(Arcadia.—Switchback railway now running through groves of trees, and above a veritable Fairyland of flowers, foliage, and illuminations, to strains of military music.)

Come, switch with me, my cockney Love,

And we will all the pleasures prove