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?