a flower-girl there with some lilies and a smile
By the gilt swing-doors of a drinking hell,
Where the money is rattling loud and fast,
And I catch one glimpse as the ship swings past
Of a woman with a babe at her breast
Wrapped in a ragged shawl;
She is drinking away with the rest,
And the sun shines over it all,
Heigh, ho!
The sun shines over it all!

III

And a barrel-organ is playing,
Somewhere, far away,
_Abide with me_, and _The world is gone a-maying_,
And _What will the policeman say?_
There's a glimpse of the river down an alley by a church,
And the barges with their tawny-coloured sails,
And a grim and grimy coal-wharf where the London pigeons perch
And flutter and spread their tails,
Heigh, ho!
Flutter and spread their tails.

IV

O, what does it mean, all the pageant and the pity,
The waste and the wonder and the shame?
I am riding tow'rds the sunset thro' the vision of a City
Which we cloak with the stupor of a name!
I am riding thro' ten thousand thousand tragedies and terrors,
Ten million heavens that save and hells that damn;
And the lightning draws my car tow'rds the golden evening star;
And--They call it only "riding on a tram,"
Heigh, ho!
They call it only "riding on a tram."

SHERWOOD

PERSONS OF THE DRAMA

ROBIN Earl of Huntingdon, known as "Robin Hood."

LITTLE JOHN }
FRIAR TUCK }
WILL SCARLET } Outlaws and followers of "Robin Hood."
REYNOLD GREENLEAF }
MUCH, THE MILLER'S SON }
ALLAN-A-DALE }

PRINCE JOHN.
KING RICHARD, Coeur de Lion.
BLONDEL King Richard's minstrel.
OBERON King of the Fairies.
TITANIA Queen of the Fairies.
PUCK A Fairy.
THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM.
FITZWALTER Father of Marian, known as "Maid Marian."
SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF A Fool.
ARTHUR PLANTAGENET Nephew to Prince John, a boy of about ten years of age.
QUEEN ELINOR Mother of Prince John and Richard Lion-Heart.
MARIAN FITZWALTER Known as Maid Marian, betrothed to Robin Hood.
JENNY Maid to Marian.
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