LONDON PRIDE.

Upon a lily-laden tide,

Where galleons rocked with sails blown wide

And white swans gleamed, there was a city

Whose citizens called "London Pride"

The flower that some call "None-so-Pretty."

It grew beside the frowning tower,

By RALEGH'S walk and BOLEYN'S bower,

As frail as joy, as sweet as pity;

And "London Pride" they called that flower