Which ’neath those slender wires did flow,
Upturned their eyes and sighed—
“If that air bridge,” they whispered low,
“Vos broad enough to let us pass,
Ve’d not av so much round to go,
As now ve av—alas!”
In vain their sighs, in vain their tears,
May blow and flow for many years!
No mortal man may cross the cord
That crosses Thames at Hungerford.