For love letters were found before they reached the parent’s eye—
By the good old English constable, one of the olden time.
There are nine more verses of this parody. It occurs in Songs, by “Jingo,” published by Edward West, Newgate Street, London. No date, but probably about 1859. It also contains parodies of “Meet me by Moonlight Alone,” “The Cannibal Islands,” “The Ratcatcher’s Daughter,” “I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls,” and many other songs which were popular about thirty years ago.
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An Opium Vision.
(After a long course of Alma Tadema.)
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,
Whilst Sappho sang songs at my side,
Ah! cold as a bath were those glittering walls,
The doors and the windows were wide.