Till from kitchen, long dirty, your dinner shall come;
Long the often-told tale that your host will relate,
Long his face whilst complaining how long people eat;
Long may Longfellow long ere he see me again,—
Long 'twill be ere I long for Tom Longfellow's inn."
C. H. (2)
Yesterday I happened to be looking over an old Bristol paper (Sarah Farley's Bristol Journal, Saturday, June 11, 1791), and the name of Longfellow, which I had before only known as borne by the poet, caught my eye. At the end of the paper there is a notice in these words:
"Advertisements are taken in for this paper by agents in various places, and by Mr. Longfellow, Brecon," &c.
Henry Geo. Tomkins.
Park Lodge, Weston-super-Mare.