"As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado."
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London, from Romances (1917). Compare: Alfred Noyes, Go down to Kew in Lilac-time.
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Henry Howarth Bashford
Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (13 January 1880 – August 15, 1961) was an English writer and poet, as well as a distinguished physician and the personal doctor to King George VI of England.
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