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The Landau (Praed) |
There was a landau deep and wide, Cushioned for Sleep’s own self to sit on—The glory of the country-side From Tanner’s End to Marlow Ditton.John of the broad and brandied cheek (Well I recall its eau-de-vie hues! )Drove staid Sir Ralph five days a week At speeds which we considered Jehu’s. . .But now poor John sleeps very sound, And neither hears nor smells the fussOf the young Squire’s nine-hundred-pound— Er—And I who in my daily stroll Observe the reckless chauffeur crowd her,Laudator temporis, extol The times before the Act allowed her.
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