No comfortable feel in any member—
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees.
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds.
November!
The brothers James and Horace Smith, wrote what was in their day considered lively and amusing humor, but which seems a trifle dry to us. Their greatest work was the Rejected Addresses, a series of parodies on the poets, such as Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Scott, Moore and many others.
One of these, an imitation of Wordsworth’s most simple style, succeeds in parodying his mawkish affectations of childish simplicity and nursery stammering.
THE BABY’S DÉBUT
[Spoken in the character of Nancy Lake, a girl eight years of age, who is drawn upon the stage in a child’s chaise by Samuel Hughes, her uncle’s porter.]
My brother Jack was nine in May,
And I was eight on New-Year’s day;