No taste hast thou of vernal sweets,
Enslav’d by noise, and dress, and play;
Ere thou art to the country flown,
The sun will scorch, the Spring be gone,
Then leave the town in May.
From The Fashionable World Displayed.
By John Owen. London, 1804,
Ode on the Closing of the House of Commons,
By George, Prince Regent, in 1816.
Lo! where the scarlet-bosom’d band,