The Complete Works of C S Calverley

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "There stands a city." Ingoldsby. YEAR by year do Beauty's daughters, In the sweetest gloves and shawls, Troop to taste the Chattenham waters, And adorn the Chattenham balls. 14 Nulla non donanda lauru," Is that city: you could not, Placing England's map before you, Light on a more favour'd spot. If no clear translucent river Winds 'neath willow-shaded paths, " Children and adults " may shiver All day in " Chalybeate baths " : And on every side the painter Looks on wooded vale and plain And on fair hills, faint and fainter Outlined as they near the main. There I met with him, my chosen Friend?the "long" but not "stern swell,"1 Faultless in his hats and hosen, Whom the Johnian lawns know well:? Oh my comrade, ever valued ! Still I see your festive face; 1 "The kites know well the long stern swell That bids