Ww. V.

For like morning-stars together, sweet and
shrill,
In a blithe recurrent cycle
Sang St. Peter and St. Michael,
John the Baptist and St. Mary on the Hill ;
And the quick exulting changes of their peal
Made the heavens above them laugh, and
the jubilant city reel.
In the streets the crowds were cheering.
Like a shout
From each spire the bickering bunting rol-
licked out.

O that buoyant autumn morning, eighteen
five,

Every Englishman rejoiced to be alive ;

And the heart of England throbbed from sea
to sea

As the joy-bells clashed in Chester, jovial
Chester on the Dee.

Hark, in pauses of the revel—sole and
slow —
Old St. Werburgh swung a heavy note of woe !

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