So Gilbey’ll still be lord of all.
From The Shotover Papers
(Oxford), October 17, 1874.
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The following extract is taken from a very amusing volume, entitled “Lays of the Saintly,” by Mr. Walter Parke, published by Vizetelly and Co., London. The ballad introduced is a Parody of the style of ballads contained in Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
St. Fillan’s Arm.
(A Lay of Scott-land.)
Harp of the North, that hangs, or used to hang,
“On the witch-elm that shades St. Fillan’s spring”
(Which elm I know not), wake thy tuneful twang,
And keep thy wires in order while I sing