Translated in the Quarterly Review.
We are not at present breathing the air either of Christ Church meadow or Trinity gardens; and if our version of a piece of mere pleasantry, which involves nothing in it beyond a moment's laugh, should be so happy as to satisfy the 'general reader,' we shall affect 'for the nonce,' to know nothing of the objections which more scientific persons, the students of the brilliant Hermann, and acute Reisigius, might be supposed to make to our arrangement of this little extravaganza.
Scene, the Acherusian Lake. BACCHUS at the oar in Charon's Boat; CHARON;—CHORUS OF FROGS; in the background a view of Bacchus's Temple or Theatre, from which are heard the sound of a scenical entertainment.
Semi-chorus. Croak, croak, croak.
Semi-chorus. Croak, croak, croak.
(In answer, and with the music an octave lower.)
Full Chorus. Croak, croak, croak.
LEADER of the Chorus. When[1] flagons were foaming,
And roisterers were roaming,
And bards flung about them their gibe and their joke;