Henry Frost appeared on the occasion of the first flower show with a poem composed to celebrate the birth of the cottage garden exhibition and the burial of the revel. It was very laudatory of my father, and every verse concluded with the refrain—
“For he had a most expansive mind.”
He had used incredible effort to obtain suitable rhymes. In one verse he had—
“In laudable efforts he was not behind,
For, &c.”
Another ran—
“To drunken abuses never was blind,
For, &c.
Another, in doubtful grammar, ran—
“Among his comperes greatly he shined,