And then he said, “Please put it in your note
“I only lie to gain the coloured vote.”
The spirit wrote and vanished. The next night
It came again, with evident delight,
And showed the names of politicians dead,
And lo! Ben Butler’s name was at the head.
American Paper. 1886.
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Leigh Hunt’s other poems never attained to sufficiently general popularity to become the butt of the parodist, there is, however, a jocular imitation of his style in The Book of Ballads, by Bon Gaultier, from which a few lines may be quoted:
Francesca Da Rimini.