The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-01-11 00:00:00

BRIDPO RT.

FIRST DRY. CORPS.-WO have much pleasure in
dating that Sir Enlyneux Hyde Nepean, Bart— has consented
to be capthin-eorniniuidaut of the let Dorset Volunteer Rifle
Corps, in the room of Captain-Commandant Edwards, native&
Tux "FazoorroL DaLoos" or BRIDPORT.-The action
of the ratepayers ol Bridport, in rejecting, at the lest
Municipal election, the Councillors who desired to
establish waterworks in sonatastion with the Board of
Health, has been cleverly satirised as follows
No. listen gentle, great and small,
Now listen to my lay,
It is about ye great dragon
k That mead sore dismay.
And 'tic about he famous town.
That lyeth mare the are ;
And of ye men who dwelt therein, '
And acted loolishlye.
Now this fair town. stood in a vale,
Ye Allis stood round about,
And from the Na and from the lend,
Ye braise weld in and out.
And ye sun, three quarter, of the years
Shone on it summerlye.
There was no towne, or far or nears
That 'hewed more pleamantlye.
Ye wild. flowers sprang it round about,
Ye myrtles bloomed hire,
Ye kingethers and woo,lpeckers,
Took up their dwelling near*.
And ye hundred little birds that sing,
Loved there to tune their lay;
But ere ye envy. this fake towns,
Oh listen gentles gay.
For there,—where floWry meadows gleam,
Before ye cottage door;
Or there,—where floweth sluggish streams
That's coveted full sore;
Or there,—where gold-haired children play,
Amid their garden flower.;
Or them—where high:bom dories dtie;
Beneathe her trellised bower.;
A fearfull dragon makes ha isle,
It and its othor•e brood;
And young and old, and rich and poor,
It seizes for it. food.
And nine good I yes to stay its maw,
Each year. his people give,
And many on tboir frames must bears.
Its teeth-marks white tidy live.
And not the idle, melee., weak,
Mud bears this &whin doom,
But ye strong man in his pride of strength,
Ye mayden in her bloom.
And )C fair nuning mother,
Her husband'. Joy tosee,
And ye little fat -haired darling,
Whom he daidles on his knee

And now, good folks, both great and %gull,
Woide ye my iddie read,
And ram what them poor people did,
Sore driven It. their need.
Ye II my they sent north, west, end east,
To find some Yen* bold
To fight and slay this frightful beast.,
And drag hym from his bold;
Or else unto their lord they sent
To pray him beartllye,•
To mnal his arnhs to their aid,

And lave then xpeedilye ;
Orhhe with. one
.aceonk they rote,

And put their labour bye,
And chnee them captains, cool and brave,
. .

T. lead them ortlerlye.
And brought forth of theirgoiden etores
T. buy them sword &MI *wee
To chain: this horror from their doom,

Their tender babes to nave. •
Alt no! my We ye cannot read,
• My riddle cannot
ike•Uhe the people of this (mole
Were very foods% men.
And though they suffered many a year',
And vrepe and moaned aruay-ne,
They hugged this dragon in their arms,
And wolde not have hym slay ne.
And when brave men among them rose
To fight right manfully.,
They clamoured loud and cried to them
To lett ye cragon be.
Our fatharf," sayde they, "kept ye beast,"
And te4hin wi h their lives,
They gave ys little children,
They gave ye tender wives
And other Pawnee in this faire land,

Hsre dragons Just es ;
Now lett ye lout lye in bid lair,
And keep the nutter ItilL
And so, when men rose to their old

To battle reaniullye.
They drove Mem from their council board,
With rage and contumely.
And dill ye cragon holds its my,
And stall ye people dye—
Clod rave us from such beasts l—and men,
ho act so foolishly.