Which means the usual sort of lies

You’ve heard from every swell;

When, bored with every sort of bosh,

You’d give the world to see

A friend whose love you know will wash,

Oh, then remember me!

The funniest burlesque of Wordsworth’s We are Seven, with which we are acquainted, is by Mr H. S. Leigh:

‘I thought it would have sent me mad

Last night about eleven.’

Said I: ‘What is it makes you bad?