SOURCE OF THE DUDDON.
A HUMBLE IMITATION VERY!
And now, in humble imitation of my betters, I cannot refrain from trying my poor hand at a sonnet, and, when you have well considered the same, I hope and believe that, however infinite you may reckon its poetical inferiority, you will admit that its sentiment is more in accordance with the subject—that it is conceived in a more Catholic spirit than those of my great prototype—
“And that my raptures are not conjured up
To serve occasions of poetic pomp,” attend;—
Here springs the Duddon, trickling from the end
Of Wrynose, thus suggesting the belief
That Wrynose lacks a pocket-handkerchief.
It argues much untidiness to send