Each on the other’s bosom died.
She’s now the mistress of Buffalo Bill,
And pure as the heart of a lily still;
While I’ve killed all who have cared for me,
And I’m just as lonely as I can be,
So, pass the whiskey,—we’ll have a spree!
From Diversions of the Echo Club, by Bayard Taylor.
Several other parodies of American poets have already been quoted From The Diversions of the Echo Club, and it is only now necessary to say of the others that they are written in imitation of E. C. Stedman, Mrs. Sigourney, W. C. Bryant, T. B. Oldrich, Mrs. Stoddard, N. P. Willis, R. H. Stoddard, Henry T. Tuckerman, Jean Ingelow, George H. Baker, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and William Winter.
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WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE!