A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

She passed about the kitchen grate

And went to making pies.

As a matter of fact this only differs by the use of a few turns from

Her suffering ended with the day,

by James Aldrich (1810-1856).

[P. 271.] That very time I saw, etc. See Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II., Sc. 1.

[P. 272.] On a Toasted Muffin, Sir E. L. B. L. B. L. B. Little was Edward Lytton Bulwer Lytton, afterwards Lord Lytton, who had written an anonymous satire, The New Timon.

[P. 273.] In Immemoriam. In connexion with these quatrains it may be noted that Whewell (1794-1866), in one of his treatises, published before In Memoriam, dropped into the following sentence: 'No power on earth, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.'

[P. 274.] Bayard Taylor. The Diversions of the Echo Club first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, 1872, and in book form in 1876. The poems here reprinted are given by permission of the Houghton, Mifflin Company.