And my whole course of life shall be

Bent against them in just antipathy!

William Maginn.

This parody originally appeared in the Literary Gazette for 1820, p. 427.

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Lines originally intended to have been inserted in the last edition of Wordsworth’s Poems.

I.

I met an old man on the road,

His name was Robert Lake;

Old man, said I, how do you do?