The belles responsive trip with lightsome heels;
While I, deserted, the cold pangs deplore,
Or breathe the wrath which slighted beauty feels.
* * * * *
This does not continue in the vein of parody.
From Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, by William Maginn. 1885.
The “Elegy” Travestied.
The shops are closed—the sign of closing day
The sewing-girl glides glibly home to tea;