There were several other parodies of Darwin’s Loves of the Plants, such as The Loves of the Colours, and The Loves of the Lowlier Plants, both of which were published about 1824.
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Natural Selection.
A Skit on the Darwinian Theory.
I have found out a gift for my fair,
I have found where the cave men are
Laid, Skull femur and pelvis are there,
And spears that of silex they made.
But he ne’er could be true, she averred,
Who would dig up an ancestor’s grave;