And, when she grew serener, far,
Fished the thing up, with "dear old star!"
Egg-shell she o'er.
This ingenious but rather mad parody appeared in The Figaro of May 6, 1876.
THOSE HORRID SCHOOLS.
I.
THE shades of night were falling fast,
As through the quad a gownsman passed,
Whose seedy look and sunken cheek