And she neither smiled nor wept.
Rose, a nurse of ninety years,
Set a pigeon-pie in sight;
She saw him eat: ‘’Tis he, ’tis he!’
She knew him—by his appetite.
The following clever parody of Wordsworth’s Lucy is but little known. It was written by Hartley Coleridge, and reappeared some years ago in Notes and Queries. We shall quote the first verse of the original:
She dwelt among the untrodden ways,
Beside the banks of Dove;
A maid whom there were none to praise,
And very few to love.