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;