Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 45
lls, But no one ever doth intnide Upon that pilgrims solitude. 32 GUY GREENHOKNS WAXDEPJXGS. A ])0()k of checks before Mm lies,Which he regards with anxious eyes.As if to read his fate, hed lookInto that useless little book;And if a stranger seeks his wicket,To pay a fare and take a ticket,That… … Wliile in that savage, lone retreat.Crows hover oer the savoury meat;The baldness of the scene aroundGives to his f cai*s substantial ground;Until that hermit in his denBegins to doubt his fellow-men;And when for tickets they apply. He thinks them not in earnest half.But wildly at them winks his…
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