“Ahoy! and Oho, and it’s who’s for the ferry?”

— Theo Marzials

(The brier’s in bud and the sun going down:)
“And I’ll row ye so quick and I’ll row ye so steady,
And ’t is but a penny to Twickenham Town.
Twickenham Ferry (1883).

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Anglo-French poet and eccentric 1850–1920

Theo Marzials (1850–1920) Anglo-French poet and eccentric

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“Ahoy! and Oho, and it’s who’s for the ferry?”

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