Horace Smith's Lines on Craven- street, Strand.
At the top of the street the lawyers abound, And down at the bottom tho barges are found. Fly, Honesty, fly, to a safer retreat, For there's craft in the river and craft in in the street. Sib G-. Rose's Reply.
Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From the lawyers and barges? — odds rot 'em! The attorneys are jitst at the top of the street. And the barges are just "at the bottom.
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West Coast Times, Issue 664, 9 November 1867, Page 3
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82Horace Smith's Lines on Craven- street, Strand. West Coast Times, Issue 664, 9 November 1867, Page 3
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