Wail we and weep we a
Wild miserere!
Thackeray wrote this pretty little ballad simply that he might render it absurd by his own parody, which is here printed side by side, as it was when it first appeared in Frazer’s Magazine for 1842, in The Fitz-Boodle Papers.
The Willow-Tree.
No. II.
Long by the willow-tree
Vainly they sought her,
Wild rang the mother’s screams
O’er the gray water.
“Where is my lovely one?