The Rustic.
The Shotover Papers. November, 1874. J. Vincent, High Street, Oxford.
The Rime of the Ancient Premier.
Fragment found in a copy of the New Government Unseaworthy Ships Bill, left in the House of Commons.
It is an Ancient Premier,
And he stoppeth One of Three.
By thy grey curls and sleepy eyes,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?
“The Session hurries to its close,