At "an ass on a common, a goose on a green."
But what had he said had he lived in our days
Of the scenes that Hyde Park in the season displays?
Where the "goose on the green" is a Socialist scamp,
And the "pig on the dunghill" a somnolent tramp.
O sweet rus in urbe, our London delight!
A Ghetto by day, a Gehenna by night!
Who cares for the meaningless trill of a lark,
When the shriek of the spouter is heard in Hyde Park?
"In London the spirits are cheerful and light,"