[Gutenberg 59032] • The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford and Cromer Road / Sport and history on an East Anglian turnpike

Excerpt from The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike

I tell the Tale of the Road, with scraps of gossip and curious lore,

With a laugh, or a sigh, and a tear in the eye for the joys and sorrows of yore:

What were they like, those sorrows and joys, you ask, O Heir of the Ages:

Read, then, mark, learn, and perpend, an you will, from these gossipy pages.

Here, free o'er the shuddery heath, where the curlew calls shrill to his mate,

Wandered the Primitive Man, in his chilly and primitive state;...