And he curst his owner like one o’clock.
XVII.
But before he departs from the scene of the tale,
To catch the first trans-Atlantic mail,
He mutters this moral, at the thought of his losses
“Mind you don’t go and put your crust in racehorses.”
From Cribblings from the Poets, by Hugh Cayley.
(Jones and Piggott, 16, Trinity Street, Cambridge, 1883.)
PARODIES OF SOUTHEY’S EARLY POLITICAL POEMS.
In order to explain the parodies of Southey’s political poems, it is necessary to refer to the peculiar opinions he held, and the widely varying theories he advanced, at two different periods of his life.