Punch: Punch (101.1891)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[Decembeb 19, 1891.

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE,

{Modern Political Version, a long way after Marlowe.)

" Come live with me, and be arr love, " That Land Reform, Allotted Field,

And we will all the pleasures prove And Village Councils soon must yield."

And thou shalt sit at ease, and mock A Charity less harsh and cold THE NYMPH'S REPLY.

The Tory Shepherds of the Hock, To warm thine heart when thou grow'st old. {Some way after Sir Walter Balezgh.)

The Squire and Parson o'er whose fall A chance the knd to dweU If t were sure .twere s00th thou 'st suns

I he Primrose Dames already squall. Free> independent, faring weU; That truth were on thy silvery tongue ;

And I will give thee cots most cosy, And if these pleasures may thee move, These pleasures must my passion move

Of structure sound and aspect rosy ; Come live with me, and be my love ! To live with thee and be thy love.

True homes,, salubrious if not garish, Though Tory Swains thy vote may crave But art thou sure the Allotted Field

And proper influence m the parish. To keep thee sfiU th(j landlord's slave, A present paradise will yield,

One-Man-one-Vote, the Ballot, School, If freedom's joys thy mind may move, Making a lady of a thrall,

And rating on a fairer rule ; Come live with me and be my love ! As dreamed at the Memorial Hall: