And mighty’s the mind of the mortal,
Who knows what I mean!
From Patter Poems, by Walter Parke,
London, Vizetelly & Co., 1885.
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A MATCH.
One of the cleverest parodies on Swinburne was written by the late Mr. Tom Hood, the younger, on the above named poem, and first appeared in Fun, whence it has frequently been copied without proper acknowledgment.
The parody will be better appreciated after reading a few stanzas of the original which, as will be observed, is written in a difficult and very uncommon metre:
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,