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Arrived at the meeting, 

 I've many a greeting 



From friends and old sportsmen I see on the lawn. 



Earls Wilton and Wicklow, 

 Both good men — who can go, 



A peer* who rides hard, and whose heart never fails; 

 Scarcely deigning to look, 

 At bullfinch or brook, 



He goes like a bird at a tall flight of rails. 



A once well-known " whip,"t 

 Letting politics slip, 



Who cheers on his bloodhounds when hunting the stag. 

 And smart Captain Candy, 

 So cheerful and handy, 



A nailer to hounds, when he's on a good nag. 



As courteous and pleasant, 

 To peer as to peasant. 



See the author, and poet, beloved by us all. 

 (Ah, well I remember. 

 That day in December, 



When I first met Whyte-Melville at Wartnaby Hall.) 



Then observe Lady Dixie, 

 On a horse that is tricksie, 



Who knows how to handle a troublesome steed ; 

 And I bid him beware. 

 To take very great care, 



Who fancies to follow her ladyship's lead. 



Handsome — bewitching, 

 " Most awfully fetching," 



*' On Stanley, on ! " it is vain to declare ; 

 For if — losing his cunning, 

 The fox shows straight running, 



ThatX handsome lady is sure to be there. 



* Lord Carington. f Lord Wolverton. J Mrs. Sloane Stanley. 



