Excerpt from Description of a Journey to Marlborough, Bath, Portsmouth etc.
NEXT, over Pewsey's fertile Fields I haste,
Fields with the bearded Crops of CERES grac'd!
While pleasing Hopes my grateful Bosom chear;
But soon they vanish'd—*STANLEY was not here.
Author's Note: Stanley was the rector of Pewsey, who had first encouraged the author.
You can read excerpts about many of the other places described by Duck in this poem, including Old Sarum, Southampton, Bath and more.