You’d have had a good day,
That is—if your nag
Didn’t linger or lag,
Or go lame!”
From Cribblings from the Poets, by Hugh Cayley. Cambridge. Jones & Piggott. 1883.
——:o:——
The Tale of the Sensitive “Freak.”
(A Parody of Shelley’s “The Sensitive Plant.”)
A sensitive “freak” in a museum stood,
Where the hours were short and the salary good;