Cold, wet, or whatever the day,
And, still with a voice of a ludicrous crack,
Would I could describe its cadaverous knack—
He croaked the "Wirer's Lay."
ARTHUR-A-BLAND.
This parody appeared in The Shotover Papers for May, 1874 (J. Vincent, High Street, Oxford), it will certainly appeal more to old Oxford men, from its allusions, than to the general reader.
THE SONG OF LOVE.
WITH bosom weary and sad,
With eyelids heavy and red,