The Lord Mayor's Show, I saw it from the Strand,
I stood and waited there an hour or so,
Till from afar there came with blare of band
The Lord Mayor's Show.
In civic splendour and with footstep slow
Passed the procession, glorious and grand!
I liked the soldiers well enough, although
The men from Deal looked quite at home on land.
Yet I confess that when I came to go,
I said that once a year's enough to stand
The Lord Mayor's Show.
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"THE BLACK ART" REVIVED!--"The best specimen of the Black Art," quoth
the Baron de B. W., "that I have lately seen, is the republication of
the works of the Wizard of the North, _alias_ Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart.,
in a series of substantial library-shelve-ish volumes, printed in good
clear type."
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