He gain’d in Egan,—well, not quite a friend.
No farther seek his secrets to disclose,
Or draw his frailties, in these faltering rhymes,
From where they—some of them, ’tis said—repose—
The sanctum of his Walter and his Times,
Moonshine. April 30, 1887.
DETACHED FRAGMENTS
OF
PARODIES ON THE “ELEGY.”
Epitaph on “The Pic-Nic.”