One little fig of Latakia
Would buy all fruits of Paradise;
"Prince Alfred's Mixture" fetch a price
Above both Prince and Galatea.
Sudden he said, "No more be dreary!
The dray has come!" he said.
He said, "I'll smoke till I am weary,—
And then I'll go to bed."
Miscellaneous Poems, by J. Brunton. Stephens. (Macmillan and Co., London), 1880.
This book contains several other amusing parodies of the poems of Swinburne, E. A. Poe, and Coleridge, which will be quoted in future parts of the collection. They all relate to Colonial life, and are now difficult to meet with, as all the unsold copies of the book have been returned to the author, who resides in Australia.