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(The Editor felicitously adds that the
second verse is not worth parodying.)
Blackwood’s Magazine. July, 1823.
To Lydia’s Glass Eye.
“From particulars supplied to the reporter of a Chicago paper by a dealer in glass eyes in that city, it appears that there are as many as a thousand wearers of these eyes in Chicago…. Twenty years ago there were sold many more dark eyes than light … about twenty light eyes are now sold to one dark.”—Times.
Wink at me only with glass eye,
And I’ll respond with mine,
And smile not when the harmless fly
Goes crawling over thine.