Some with frowns and some with smiles,
Debating how they’ll gang their miles,
Ev’n as, through life, it doth prevail,
That some do buss it,—some do rail.
These extracts are taken from a long poem contained in Rival Rhymes, in honour of Burns; collected and edited by Ben Trovato. Published by Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, London, in 1859. This little volume contains parodies of Father Prout; Thomas Campbell; Longfellow; Hood; Tennyson; Barry Cornwall; Macaulay; Pope, and Thackeray. It is now known that it was written by Samuel Lover, the novelist, it will, however, add little to his fame either as a poet, or a humourist.
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Recreation Rhymes.
By the Author of “The Idylls of the Rink.”
Football.
By J * * n M * * * * n.
Hence, hateful idleness,