And heard the bell from St. Clement’s toll, toll through the silence of evening.
From Warreniana, by W. F. Deacon. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, 1824.)
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“The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor” for September 1, 1813, contained several burlesque applications for the Laureatship, then vacant through the recent death of Henry James Pye.
None of the poems is of sufficient interest co be worth reprinting, the authors supposed to be imitated are Hannah More, George Colman, Lord Byron, W. Wordsworth, Dr. Thomas Busby, Thomas Campbell, Walter Scott, George Crabbe, W. H. Fitzgerald, and Robert Southey.
The burlesque of Southey concludes thus:—
“Then what a happy Prince you’ll be
With a Poet Laureate such as me;
When duly here, to George the Regents praise,
My Prince, as with an angel’s voice of song,