Trafalgar Square

Category

Library Item

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

Location

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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