P. R. Chalmers

Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3809… (19th and 20th century)

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P. R. Chalmers Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3809… (19th and 20th century)

Good gentlemen, good gentlemen, it's close, your London air;
If I'm mixing up the proverbs, 'tis because my reads run shining
Through the fret of far-off pine-woods, and I'm wishful to be there;
Or at hand among the hop-poles when the vines are trailing fair.
Good gentlemen, the prologue! Here's programme most attractive:
She's songs for everyone o' you—oh, rare the tunes and rich!
Here's hackneyed Devon Harbours (but the pollock's biting active) ;
Here's Evening (rise in Hampshire) ; here's The Roller on the Pitch;
And music in the lot o' them—it doesn't matter which.
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