MISCELLANEOUS VERSES. XI 



Infant Surplice by her side ; 



Foreshadowing the day he drew 



A neck away from Canezou. 



Ah ! the memory will forge 



Painful visions of Lord George : 



No more will he, flag in hand, 



Marshal jocks before yon stand ; 



No more will his eagle eye 



Watch his " light blue" glancing by : 



A thousand moons may come and wane 



Ere we see his like again. 



Time goes on, and merrily we 

 Sweep past the many-bridged Knottingley ; 

 At Milford junction we scorn to wait 

 And we catch a faint wind scent of Harrogate ; 

 Hurrah ! Hurrah ! the haven is won, 

 York Minster's towers gleam in the sun ; 

 Dick Turpin was scarce so joyous, I guess, 

 As he viewed them at last from his game Black Bess 

 Now we pass the house once to Bill Scott dear, 

 And press the moist sod of the famed Knavesmire. 

 But once before beneath our ken 

 Came such a congress of Yorksiremen 

 The vision our retina fairly bewilders 

 Of so many Browdies and so many " Tildas" 

 Burghers and farmers, graziers, and cads, 

 Sucked the latest ideas out of racing lads ; 

 Matrons and grandmothers, cherry-cheeked maids, 

 Cockneys and Leeds chaps, and Sheffield blades, 

 Were mingled together eating and drinking, 

 Buying and selling, courting and winking 

 (For Yorkshiremen are such fellows to last) 

 They had talked of the match for these six months past. 

 See in the booths how the publicans' daughters 

 Go flying about with the brandy-and-waters : 

 While their customers sit at the rough-planed board. 

 And drink to the luck of their " county lord." 

 The " goes" which that day they imbibed I divine, 

 Would have floated an 80-gun ship of the line, 



The Knight of the Garter has done the trick, 



Tom Holtby has polished off three 

 Each eager spectator has cut his stick 



Before Chalk and his chivalry ; 

 And thousands of heart with excitement burn 

 As the Dutchman is viewed at the Dringhouse turn. 



Onward he moves with a stately step, 

 And a skin as bright as a raven ; 



