Every one knows ’tis Spring—Tom Spring, now Champion of England.
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In a somewhat similar vein of parody is Tom Moore’s Milling-Match between Entellus and Dares. Translated from the Fifth book of the Æneid.
With daddles high upraised, and nob held back,
In awful prescience of the impending thwack,
Both kiddies stood—and with prelusive spar,
And light manœvring kindled up the war.
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A Free and Independent Translation of the First and Fourth Books of the Æneid of Virgil. In Hexameter and Pentameter. With Illustrations by Thomas Worth. The Winsted Herald Office, Winsted, Conn. U.S.A. 1870.
This is a burlesque in “Modern American,” with very comical woodcuts.