These words neces
sary for James Thorne
Antiquary, Herborne,
September 1815
New the mud and brambles
Of fre quent country rambles
For Charles Knight's penny magazine
An d in other publications
Are his many illustrations
Of the pond and of the mill
Of the hamlet on the hill
and the spinny in between
Disappeared before the car came
Then the aeroplane
of the places which he saw
That he liked to sit and draw,
the engravings still remain
Townsman and agrarian
James Thorn
Antiquarian wandered far
away from his home
Met with the budding Byrons of London
And its environs to walk the Chalky
Down and the Loam
So from these perambulations,
he distilled his observations
Of the pond and of the mill,
of the hamlets on the hill
And the spinny in between,
disappeared before the car came
Then the aeroplane,
of the places which he saw
That he liked to sit and draw
The engravings still remain
From the wheels of Kent
Out on the tracks where the Saxon went
Through the Middlesex lanes
In the spring rains
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