P. B. Shelley.
To a Bicycle.
(“Mr. Bushby said he could not convict a person of ‘furiously driving’ a bicycle under any clause of the Police Act, except in cases when the machine had been driven on the footway.”)
Hail to thee, blithe roadster!—
Spurr’d thou never wert,
But sans stripe, or goad-stir,
Puttest on thy spurt,
In profuse rains, or unpremeditated dirt.