Since from each tempting bundle
They’ve faded away.
When Regalias are smoked out,
And “Lopez” are blown,
Oh! who would still linger,
Cigarless, alone?
J. R. G.
From Hints to Freshmen in the
University of Oxford. (J. Vincent, Oxford.)
The following parody of The Last Rose of Summer is rather slangy, and would not have been inserted, but for the fact that it originally appeared in part 9 of The Snob (June 4, 1829), a small paper published in Cambridge, to which it is known that Thackeray contributed. It is, therefore, not improbable that he was the author of this parody.