Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume I/A Comparison
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CHAPTER XVII.
ANOTHER LONDON LIFE.
A pretty, rainbow sort of life enough;
Filled up with vanities and gay caprice:
Such life is like the garden at Versailles,
Where all is artificial; and the stream
Is held in marble basins, or sent up
Amid the fretted air, in waterfalls;
Fantastic, sparkling; and the element,
The mighty element, a moment's toy;
And, like all toys, ephemeral.
Blanchard’s title is:
A COMPARISON
In The New York Mirror (3rd March 1838), as City Life
In the Bouquet (1846), under (London Pride) Silene as Frivolity