Punch (102.1892)

™_PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [June 18, 1892.

DISSOLUTION-CAS THE ENEMY OF THE LONDON SEASON).

There was a sound of revelry by day,
And England's Capital had gathered then,
Her Beauty and her Masherdom, and gay
Spring 's sun shone o'er smart women and

swell men;
A thousand shops shone showily; and when

Mat came to Mayfair, Flora to Pall-Mail,
Shrewd eyes winked hope to eyes which
winked again, [bell.
And maids heard sounds as of the marriage -
But hush! hark ! a harsh sound strikes like
a sudden knell!

Did ye not hear it ? Is it howling wind ?
The tram-ear rattling o'er the stony street ?
The groans of M.P.'s wearily confined .,:
To the dull House when night and mornirg
meet,

Dragged to Divisions drear with dawdling feet f