Stationary

1 
Required, a hint for a summer's excursion; 
  Will anyone proffer a word of advice,
Say where may a gentleman, bent on diversion, 
  Be certain of pleasure at moderate price?
2 
Dalhousie takes seventeen hours to go ter
  (How hard are good rhymes!) and is deluged with rain,
While the people who live on the top of Bakrota  
  Have a Mall of their own and are 'cuts'  with Potrain.  
3 
And Murree's mere Pindi,  or something too near it,
  With babies and Ayahs  pervading the Mall—
A halting place solely for men who Kashmir it, 
  With a season that isn't a season at all.
4 
There's merry Mussoorie, dégagée and breezy—
  All tail and no head which is pleasant ...perhaps; 
Where life flows along in one big 'free and easy',
  And those who aren't 'Johnnies' and 'sportsmen' are 'chaps'.
5 
There's Simla, a trifle less high than its prices,
  Where you must wear good clothes for six months of the year—
With a false reputation for long deceased vices—
  As dull as Dalhousie and ten times as dear.
6 
Oh! what is the good of three–farthing frivolity,
  On the lee of a Khud with the monkey and crow?
The wise man will seek metropolitan jollity,
  Will save up his leave for three seasons and go.

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