None with the dew of the twilight wet,
So sweet as the deep blue violet.
[P. 243.] Larry O'Toole. Charles Lever: 'Did ye hear of the Widow Malone?'
[P. 243.] The Willow Tree. In this Thackeray was parodying his own earlier treatment of the same theme, as Charles Lamb had parodied himself in the Nonsense Verses (see [p. 154]). Thackeray's serious version begins:
Know ye the willow-tree,
Whose grey leaves quiver,
Whispering gloomily
To yon pale river?
[P. 245.] Dear Jack. In O'Keeffe's opera, The Poor Soldier, is the often-parodied song imitated from the Latin:
Dear Tom, this brown jug that foams with mild ale,