Hold you here, tail and all, in my hand,
Little terrier: but if I could understand
What you are, tail and all, and all in all,
I should know what "black and tan" is.
C.
Kottabos, Dublin, 1870.
There have been numerous imitations of In Memoriam, and Mr. William Dobson, in his "Poetical Ingenuities," speaking of parodies, observes:—"One appeared in Punch a number of years ago, called 'Ozokerit,' a travesty of Tennyson's 'In Memoriam,' which has been considered one of the finest ever written." It is unquestionably very clever. Singularly enough it did not appear in the body of Punch at all, but on the outside wrapper, as an advertisement, so that many people who have bound sets of Punch will not find the parody, which was as follows:—
OZOKERIT.
(By A. T., or some one who writes as well as he).