The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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ANACREON, ODE I.
PARODY.
The story of King Arthur old,And More, that dragon-slayer bold,
I strove to sing—in vain I strove—
My cat-gut squeak'd “How sweet is Love.”
A thousand ways I turn'd each screw,
And resin'd every string anew.
Again I try'd: “God prosper long—”
Broke in the middle was my song—
I found each faint idea flown
In “Joys of Love are joys alone.”
Adieu each big, each lofty air!
Come, “Leinster, fam'd for maidens fair!’
Adieu each tale so blythe and merry
Of John and the Priest of Canterbury!
My Fiddle now alone can tell
“The charms of beauteous Florimel.”
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