Easingwold.
ECHO POETRY.
(Vol. ix., p. 51.)
As another and historically-interesting specimen of echo poetry, perhaps the readers of "N. & Q." may not dislike to see preserved in your pages the following translation from the French. The original publication, it is said, exposed the bookseller, Palm of Nuremberg, to trial by court-martial. He was sentenced to be shot at Braunau in 1807—a severe retribution for a few lines of echo poetry. It is entitled
"Bonaparte and the Echo.
Bon. Alone, I am in this sequestered spot not overheard.
Echo. Heard!
Bon. 'Sdeath! Who answers me? What being is there nigh?
Echo. I.