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Alas! how many ages
 * Their rapid flight have flown,

Since on that high and lofty spire
 * There's moved a single stone!

PRESCOT, HUYTON, AND CHILDWALL.

[Ploydes—ploys—merry meetings; although some think "ploughs" are meant.]

POPULAR RHYMES.