Though ragged, let’s be free!
We will walk the unlopp’d wood,
And taste what Nature grows for food—
Grumbling here does little good!
So hail, glad Liberty!
From The Fancy, a selection from the
Poetical remains of the late
Peter Corcoran, 1820.
The same volume also contains a poem entitled The Fields of Tothill: A Fragment. This is written in imitation of Lord Byron’s Don Juan.
In 1823 the John Bull newspaper contained a parody of “Scots wha hae,” entitled “Wilson’s Subscription,” but the subject is obsolete, and the parody inferior. It commenced:
Whigs! who have with Michael dined,