Parodies of the works of English & American authors, vol. V

by Unknown

Altho’ no shell your funeral pomp displays,

Far from your grave shall fly the rebel Mirth,

And dust and ashes serve instead of bays.

Thomas Brand,

From The British Minerva, printed in Hamburgh. 1818.

——:o:——

Elegy,

Written in a College Library.

The chapel bell, with hollow mournful sound,

Awakes the fellows, slumbering o’er their fires;