To the ne'er inebriating
Ever cheering goblet summons.
From Pastime, August 24, 1883.
The late Mr. Shirley Brooks composed a number of clever parodies, many of which were contributed to Punch during his Editorship of that journal. Three of the longest and most amusing of these were The Very Last Idyll, after Tennyson; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, after Coleridge; and The Song of Hiawatha, after Longfellow. A quotation from The Very Last Idyll was given on page 44; and the parody on Coleridge will be quoted when that author is reached; the parody of Longfellow, which appeared in Punch as far back as 1856, commenced thus:—
THE SONG OF HIAWATHA.
(Author's Protective Edition.)
YOU, who hold in grace and honour,
Hold as one who did you kindness
When he published former poems,