Antique hand-written poem in a frame

£55.00

Antique hand-written poem about London which begins -

Oh! London’s a place very strange

I scorn each fancy or fiction

But,sure, it has had a great change

For the streets all express contradiction

At Charing Cross, no cross is ‘spied

The Golden Cross is but mere gilding

Silver Street, Golden Square are belied

The Bank is no bank but a building

- and continues in the same witty vein

28cm x 23cm

Antique hand-written poem about London which begins -

Oh! London’s a place very strange

I scorn each fancy or fiction

But,sure, it has had a great change

For the streets all express contradiction

At Charing Cross, no cross is ‘spied

The Golden Cross is but mere gilding

Silver Street, Golden Square are belied

The Bank is no bank but a building

- and continues in the same witty vein

28cm x 23cm