The Fancy A Selection from the Poetical Remains of the late Peter Corcoran, of Gray's Inn, Student at Law. With a brief memoir of his life [by J. H. Reynolds] |
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SONNET ON THE NONPAREIL.
“None but himself can be his parallel!”
With marble-coloured shoulders,—and keen eyes,
Protected by a forehead broad and white,—
And hair cut close lest it impede the sight,
And clenched hands, firm, and of punishing size,—
Steadily held, or motion'd wary-wise,
To hit or stop,—and kerchief too drawn tight
O'er the unyielding loins, to keep from flight
The inconstant wind, that all too often flies,—
The Nonpareil stands!—Fame, whose bright eyes run o'er
With joy to see a Chicken of her own,
Dips her rich pen in claret, and writes down
Under the letter R, first on the score,
“Randall,—John,—Irish Parents,—age not known,—
“Good with both hands, and only ten stone four!”
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