Of smoking hot beef and cabbages!
W. M. Thackeray.
This early parody has not hitherto been included amongst Thackeray’s collected ballads and poems. It was printed in an article which appeared in Cornhill, Vol. XI., 1865, entitled “A Memorial of Thackeray’s Schooldays,” signed J. F. B.
The Willow-Tree.
No. I.
Know ye the willow-tree,
Whose gray leaves quiver,
Whispering gloomily
To yon pale river?
Lady, at eventide