Echo and re-echo for ever the name of Joe Smith, boss Saint of the Mormons!
From Lays of the Saintly, by Walter Parke, author of “Songs of Singularity,” “Rhoda,” etc. London, Vizetelly and Co.
“Poem of the Ride. A parody-mosaic, by Walt Wheelman,” is the title of a long parody relating to bicycling, contained in Lyra Bicyclica, by J. G. Dalton, Boston, U.S. 1880.
Pods of Pease, a parody of Whitman, occurs on p. 24 of Rejected Tercentenary Songs published in Edinburgh in 1884, to celebrate the Tercentenary of the Edinburgh University:
“And I ask, wherefore all this merry-making, this eating and drinking?
And they tell me it is the three hundredth year of the University,
And so it is.”
A Mad Parson, a short prose story by Julian Sturgis, appeared in Longman’s Magazine, April, 1884. The parson in question is a kind of Walt Whitman in Holy orders, and his intensely democratic speeches are comical parodies of Whitman’s poetry, but they cannot well be separated from the context. Then there comes upon the scene a wicked wit who mimics the well-meaning parson, and he out-Herods Herod:—