AT length the Steam-Chiefs with replenish'd force To Manchester pursued their pageant course; A grand reception there secure they found; And though acclaim still made the air resound, The blithe response was clogg'd with grief's alloy, The fate of Huskisson still chill'd their joy. The mutual greetings and the banquet o'er, The Steam-Chiefs, in procession as before, With equal pomp and eight-fold gorgeous train, Forthwith returned to Liverpool again: While still the eager crowds, we scarce need say, Their progress hail'd with plaudits all the way. Now in conclusion, 'twould be vain to tell, How high at Liverpool was rapture's swell! How rich the banquet and how choice the wines, Where thus in state the mighty Arthur dines! While eloquence, like the occasion, rare, May be inferr'd, since Peel and Brougham were there! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 9. AT THE ALTAR-RAIL by THOMAS HARDY SNOW IN THE SUBURBS by THOMAS HARDY KATIE LEE AND WILLIE GREY by JOSIE R. HUNT BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE by MATTHEW ARNOLD SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 5 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 8 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |