Anonymous

May Fairy. A Poem

1827.

...Whirl to the West, you find the park
But turn'd a fuller Noah's ark...
There, Nash, thy plaster town aspires -
Retreat of Moorfields and Black Friars.
The stucco fine, the gravel finer;
The lamps divine, the lake diviner.
The whole affair superbly pretty!
The whole - the trader and his city.
There pant, uneasy for their life,
Fat pair, the alderman and his wife...

The poem is preceded by an editorial comment: 'The description of the present state of the Regent's Park is a specimen of double-refined horror of the author's contact with cits...' The text is taken from a cutting, Item A1X22, in the Heal Collection at the Camden Local Studies Centre. The title and date are hand-written at the side of the poem; there is no indication of the source.