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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

Carlisle

Lines

By David Hume (1711–1776)

Written on a Window-pane at the Old Bush Hotel

HERE chicks in eggs for breakfast sprawl;

Here godless boys God’s glories squall;

Here heads of Scotchmen guard the wall;

But Corbie walks alone for all.