RICHMOND, 1856.
I HOLD it truth, when I recall
Last London's season's joyous spell,
'Tis better to have danced not well,
Than never to have danced at all.
* * *
The season's past; alone at Basle
I sit; but still, as truth I tell,
'Tis better to have danced not well,
Than never to have danced at all.
The two imitations of Maud, at pages 80 and 179, are too long, and scarcely sufficiently interesting, to quote at length.
The Shilling Book of Beauty, by Cuthbert Bede (J. Blackwood, 1853), has also a parody of Maud, in ten verses, it is entitled:—