Is that which brings the roses,
And draws down you and me.
So ’mid the great Triumvirs
Did greater Caesar sway;
So ’mid the days of Epsom
Stands out the Derby day.
(Ten verses omitted.)
The Travelling Bachelor.
This imitation of Lord Macaulay first appeared in Bentley’s Miscellany, and was afterwards included in The Bentley Ballads (R. Bentley, London. 1869.)