I sing a youth of noble fame;
Town and country, ten miles round,
Awaken at the glowing sound,
Of gallant Billy Routing’s name!
This poem, written in imitation of Wordsworth, consists of thirteen verses. It will be found in Vol. I. Miscellanies by W. Maginn, London. Sampson, Low and Co. 1885.
In the same Volume will be found a rather dull imitation of Wordsworth’s Excursion, entitled The Kail Pot, which originally appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine for May, 1821, as did also the following much more clever parody:—
Billy Blinn.
I knew a man that died for love,
His name, I ween, was Billy Blinn;
His back was hump’d, his hair was grey,