The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.
Charles Stuart CalverleyPrecious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer.
Charles Stuart CalverleyOh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?
Charles Stuart Calverley