I remember, I remember,
How they feign’d to hate a kiss;
But they kiss’d in that December,
And—I think they’ll do so this!
Cuthbert Bede.
This imitation first appeared in The Month, December 1851, a small humorous magazine edited by Albert Smith, and illustrated by John Leech, which is now exceedingly scarce. The poem was afterwards included in “Motley, Prose and Verse,” by Cuthbert Bede B.A., London, James Blackwood, 1855. Many parodies which appeared over the same well known nom-de-plume between thirty and forty years ago have been, and still remain to be, quoted in this collection. The creator of Mr. Verdant Green, still wields a prolific pen, but on more serious topics than of old, as witness his numerous contributions to “Notes and Queries” on Folk Lore, and his recent history of “Fotheringhay and Mary, Queen of Scots” published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London.
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GOOD NIGHT TO THE SEASON.
“So runs the world away.”—Hamlet.
Good-night to the Season! ’Tis over!