We give two of the three verses composing the parody:
He lived among the untrodden ways,
To Rydal Mount that lead;
A bard whom there were none to praise,
And very few to read.
Unread his works—his Milk-white Doe
With dust is dark and dim;
It’s still in Longman’s shop; and oh!
The difference to him!
From a parody of Tennyson’s Mariana, which appeared in an Australian paper, we take the concluding verse. The burden of the original ballad, it will be remembered, runs: