Mail coach

We're losing fast the Good Old Days

Reference Number:- Darby Number:- Godden Number:-
sb 1248  230 543
 

Boomark with image of Mail Coach and words
Words:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
{Stevens logo dated to 1906, printed
on stiff backing paper used to
support the bookmark in the post.}
 
 
 
 
Mail
Coach
 
WE'RE LOSING FAST THE GOOD, OLD DAYS
OF RATTLING WHEELS
AND GALLANT GREYS;

WE'RE LOSING FAST THE LUGGAGED ROOF
THE WHISTLING GUARD
AND RINGING HOOF

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

image of
London to York
stage coach and four

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE ENGLISH STAGE
AND HIGH --- BRED TEAMS

WILL SOON EXIST BUT IN OUR DREAMS;
AND WHIRLING MAIL
OR STARTLING HORN

NE'ER CHEER THE NIGHT,
NOR ROUSE THE MORN.

AH, WELL-A-DAY: NO CRACKING LASH,
NO CHAMPING BIT, NO RESTLESS DASH,

NO "PULL UP" AT THE
"CROSS" OR "CROWN"

'MID ALL THE GOSSIPS OF THE TOWN
FOR TIME, WITH DEEP
RAILROADED BROW,

CHANGES ALL THINGS
BUT HORSES, NOW.

                                    Eliza Cook

 
 
Size of Silk:
30.5cm long by 5cm wide
Alternative back-ground colours:
White 
Comments:

Signed: "T.STEVENS COVENTRY" on back at pointed end:

Stevens logo on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark
Stevens logo on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark

 



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This page was created on 25 March 2001
New image added 18 January 2003, and replaced with bookmark still attached to stiff backing paper on 4 October 2016 © Peter Daws - Stevengraph-Silks