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The remainder of this parody refers to political events of little interest to modern readers.
It is taken from Posthumous Parodies, an anonymous collection of poems having a strong Tory bias, published in London by John Miller, 1814.
Commemoration Day.
Commemoration day: a day devoted to prayers and good living, i.e., feasting.
“Who leads a good life is sure to live well.”—Old Song.
The following Ode on a College Feast Day, will hardly be read with dry lips, or mouths that do not water. Whoever was the author of it, he certainly appears to have been a man of taste.
I.
Hark! heard ye not yon footsteps dread,