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• London Types : Bus Driver

  He's called The General from the brazen craft
  And dash with which he sneaks a bit of road

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• London Types:Life-Guardsman

  Joy of the Milliner, Envy of the Line,
  Star of the Parks, jack-booted, sworded, helmed,

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• London Types: Hawker

  Far out of bounds he'd figured--in a race
  Of West-End traffic pitching to his loss.

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• London Types: Drum-Major

  Who says Drum-Major says a man of mould,
  Shaking the meek earth with tremendous tread,

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• London Types: Beef-Eater

  His beat lies knee-high through a dust of story--
  A dust of terror and torture, grief and crime;

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• London Types: Mounted Police

  Army Reserve; a worshipper of Bobs,
  With whom he stripped the smock from Candahar;

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• London Types: Sandwich-Man

  An ill March noon; the flagstones gray with dust;
  An all-round east wind volleying straws and grit;

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• London Types: Barmaid

  Though, if you ask her name, she says "Elise,"
  Being plain Elizabeth, e'en let it pass,

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• London Types: 'Liza

  'Liza's old man's perhaps a little shady,
  'Liza's old woman's prone to booze and cring;

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• London Types: News Boy

  Take any station, pavement, circus, corner,
  Where men their styles of print may call or choose,

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• London Types: "Lady"

  Time, the old humourist, has a trick to-day
  Of moving landmarks and of levelling down,

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• London Types: Flower-Girl

  There's never a delicate nurseling of the year
  But our huge London hails it, and delights

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• London Types: Bluecoat Boy

  So went our boys when Edward Sixth, the King,
  Chartered Christ's Hospital, and died. And so

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• London Types: The Artist Muses At His Ease

  The Artist muses at his ease,
  Contented that his work is done,

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by William Ernest Henley

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