THE

NEW TIMON.

A ROMANCE OF LONDON.

FIRST AMERICAN;

FROM THE THIRI LONDON EDITION.

Edward G. E. L. Bulwer-Lytton

PHILADELPHIA:
CAREY AND HART.

1846.

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THE NEW TIMON.

PART THE FIRST.

I.

O'ER royal London, in luxuriant May,

While lamps yet twinkled, dawning crept the day.
Home from the hell the pale-eyed gamester steals;
Home from the ball flash jaded Beauty's wheels;
The lean grimalkin, who, since night began,
Hath hymn'd to love amidst the wrath of man,
Scared from his aptures by the morning star,
Flits finely by, and threads the area bar;
From fields suburban rolls the early cart;

As rests the revel, so awakes the mart.
Transfusing Mocha from the beans within,

Bright by the crossing gleams the alchemic tin,-
There halts the craftsman ;-there, with envious sigh,
The houseless vagrant looks, and limps foot-weary by.