And the faces are blank in the House of the Peers.
And the knot of the hour, uncut by the sword;
Dissolves at the touch of the Cabinet’s Lord!
F. B. D., 1886.
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The two parodies following are written partly in imitation of Byron’s The Dream, and partly after Darkness, which commences thus:—
DARKNESS.
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,