Poems and Parodies. By Phœbe Carey,

Boston, 1854.


The following is an amusing specimen of advertisement parodies. It was written by Mr. T. Thatcher, of College Green, Bristol:—

Tell me not in doleful murmurs

Ink is but a mouldy stream!

And the pen it rusts, and murders

Writing paper by the ream!

Thatcher’s Ink is Ink in earnest!

And to rust is not its goal;