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Trafalgar Square
Nicholson, William Newzam Prior, 1898, Publisher's print
Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square
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Item no
25019
Title
Trafalgar Square
Artist / maker
Nicholson, William Newzam Prior
Date
1898
Size
25.5 x 24.2 cm
Type
Publisher's print
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Art and Design Library
TRAFALGAR SQUARE
An ill March noon; the flagstones gray with dust;
An all-round east wind volleying straws and grit;
St Martin's Steps, where every venomous gust
Lingers to buffet, or sneap, the passing cit;
And in the gutter, squelching a rotten boot,
Draped in a wrap that, modish ten year syne,
Partners, obscene with sweat and grease and soot,
A horrible hat, that once was just as fine:
The drunkard's mouth a-wash for something drinkable,
The drunkard's eye alert for casual toppers,
The drunkard's neck stooped to a lot scarce thinkable,
A living, crawling blazoning of Hot Coppers,
He trails his mildews-with a Kingdom-Come
Compact of sausage-and-mash and two-o'-rum!
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