The auld wife sat at her ivied door,
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
A thing she had frequently done before;
And her spectacles lay on her aproned knees.
Source: Ballad
-- C S Calverley, (Dec 21 1831-1884), English poet, porodist, classical scholar, lawyer; The works of Charles Stuart Blayds [ps. C. S. Calverley] include Verses And Translations, 1862 and Fly Leaves, 1866.