Walking the Streets of London (1716) [ Concepts / Places ]
… Through winter streets to steer your course aright, How to walk clean by day and safe by night; How jostling crowds with prudence to decline, When to assert the wall and when resign, I sing: thou, Trivia, goddess, aid my song, Through … pavior thumps the ground, Whilst every stroke his laboring lungs resound; For thee the scavenger bids kennels glide Within their bounds, and heaps of dirt subside. My youthful bosom burns with thirst of fame, From the great theme to build a glorious name; To tread in paths to ancient bards unknown, And bind …
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