And if he did, no angel from the sky
Would think of taking Lo up very high.
But grant the burden of his Indian song—
Do as he likes, and take his dorg along.
Anonymous.
Another parody of the same passage is given “after a bad dinner” in “Anecdotes, Historical and Literary,” published in London by Vernor and Hood in 1796.
An imitation of Pope’s Universal Prayer will be found on page 115 of The Pleasures of Nature by D. Carey. 1803.
A Parody of Achilles’ Speech,
Pope’s Homer, Book I, line 309.
(Occasioned by the author hearing of a Clergyman who, in a violent fit of anger, threw his wig into the fire, and turned his son out of doors.)