And I wondered that I hadn’t stopped the practice long before:
So I made an inward vow, that from this moment now,
My beard should, like my pow, grow at pleasure evermore,
And my resolution echoed as I ope’d my bedroom door—
“I shall shave, ah! nevermore!”
John F. Mill.
The above Parody appeared, some years ago, in a Scotch magazine called The People’s Friend.
Chateaux D’Espagne.
(A Reminiscence of “David Garrick” and
“The Castle of Andalusia.”)
Once upon an evening weary, shortly after Lord Dundreary