Excerpt from Songs of London: A Medley Grave and GayThe streets, a-roar with boisterous noise Of rattling carts, of motor-gas exploding, Of ugly horns, tooting pneumatically, Of cogwheel'd grating cranes And the hoarse chant of news-boys, Hide all their busy-ness in veils of dust. An ancient square receives us, And din and turmoil quietly subside, Dying away beneath dark arches. Westminster precincts. Lo! Behold a murmuring fountain Plashing a melody in cloister'd court. A plane-tree spreading naked arms And dangling spiky fruit of yesteryear From 05 its March-chill'd fingers 'gainst the pale-temper'd blue of England's sky. Stillness of ages Hark A choral song.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.