But in the sunny South the weather
Beats all you know of put together.
I cannot eat—I cannot sleep—
The waves are not so blue as I;
Indeed, the waters of the deep
Are dirty brown, and so’s the sky.
I get dyspepsia when I dine—
Oh, dash that pint of country wine!”
This parody appeared in Temple Bay for March 1886, in a paper entitled Humours of Travel by Herman Merivale, but it had previously been printed in a volume entitled “The White Pilgrim, and other Poems” by the same author, and published by Chapman and Hall, London 1883.