"H" in Literature by HensleyB

Question 10

What is the title of the poem from which the following lines have been excerpted? The "he" below refers to the title character.

He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin.
They fitted with never a wrinkle. His boots were up to the thigh.
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.

The Highwayman

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