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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 23, 1892, by Various, Edited by F. C. Burnand This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 23, 1892 Author: Various Release Date: December 29, 2004 [eBook #14514] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 102, APRIL 23, 1892*** E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, William Flis, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 14514-h.htm or 14514-h.zip: (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/4/5/1/14514/14514-h/14514-h.htm) or (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/4/5/1/14514/14514-h.zip) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 102 April 23, 1892 TOWN THOUGHTS FROM THE COUNTRY. (_WITH THE USUAL APOLOGIES._) Oh, to be in London now that April's there, And whoever walks in London sees, some morning, in the Square, That the upper thousands have come to Town, To the plane-trees droll in their new bark gown, While the sparrows chirp, and the cats miaow In London--now! And after April, when May follows And the black-coats come and go like swallows! Mark, where yon fairy blossom in the Row Leans to the rails, and canters on in clover, Blushing and drooping, with her head bent low! That's the wise child: she makes him ask twice over, Lest he should think she views with too much rapture Her first fine wealthy capture! But,--though her path looks smooth, and though, alack, All will he gay, till Time has painted black The _Marigold_, her Mother's chosen flower,-- Far brighter is my _Heartsease_, Love's own dower. * * * * * A WANT.--"There is only one thing," a visitor writes to us, "that I missed at Venice, S.W. I've never been to the real place, which is the Bride, or Pride, of the Sea, I forget which, but, as I was saying, there's only one thing I miss, and that is the heather. Who has not heard of 'the moor of Ve
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