We'll put it in the rough-dried box: it may come out next year;
So, if you're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear.
Light Green, a magazine published at Cambridge, in 1872, contained another parody of the same original, it is called "The May Dream," by Alfred Pennysong.
The following appeared in The Tomahawk, of December 5th, 1868.
ELECTIONS' EVE!
A Song of the Future(?).
You must wake and call me early, call me early mother dear,
Though November is the dullest month of any in the year,
Yet to-morrow I shall represent my country—oh! how droll!