O let us in, and we will not get tight!
Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now!
A glass of gin to-night would be so sweet.
O let us in, that we may have it neat!
Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now!
Punch, November 16, 1872.
The following imitation of Tennyson is of interest as having appeared forty years ago, when the poet was comparatively unknown:—
A FRAGMENT—COMPOSED IN A DREAM.
BY A. TENNYSON.