I remember, I remember,―― Last and fresh this memory comes,―― They brought hot pickle sandwiches, Which filled my bed with crumbs; It was a heated taste I own; But brandy’s apt to cloy, Unless you pick your palate up With devilled eggs and soy. THOMAS HOOD. ―――――――― WHAT IT MAY COME TO. I remember, I remember, The House where I was bred; The Woolsack, whence the CHANCELLOR That annual Message read. He never came till after four, And rarely stayed till five; For, if their dinners were delayed, _Could_ Senators survive? I remember, I remember, The Marquises and Earls, The peerless rows of Peeresses, Those flowers decked in pearls. The cross-bench, where the Princes sat; And where the Prelates shone In piety and lawn arrayed―― The Bishops now are gone! I remember, I remember, Where I was used to spout, And thought the papers must be mad To leave my speeches out. My eloquence was practised then, That now is left to rust; And Statesmen oft, I’m sure, have winced Before my boyish thrust! I remember, I remember, The Commons trooping in; I used to think that in a fight The Peers must always win. It was a childish ignorance, But now ’tis little joy To know I’m kicked out of the House I sat in when a boy! _Punch_, September 6, 1884. ―――――――― An imitation of Hood’s _Dream of Eugene Aram_ was published in _Truth_, February 22, 1877. Its twenty-six verses were descriptive of the sorrows of a poor orphan girl on leaving the Wanstead Home to go into service:―― ’Tis in the prime of summer-time, A sunny morn in May, And scores of merry maidens cease A moment from their play; For from their Happy Wanstead Home, A girl is going that day. * * * * * A still more melancholy poem, in imitation of the same original, appeared in _Truth_, July 19, 1877. This was entitled _The Blue-coat Boy’s Ghost_, and described, in twenty-seven verses, the horrible manner in which a poor lad, named Arthur Gibbes, had been killed in Christ’s Hospital. A public investigation was held, and the result showed that a brutal system of fagging was in full force in the school, and that scarcely any supervision was exercised over the elder boys. “Meeting in the Boudoir; or, a Song of the Follies of Fashion,” which appeared in _Truth_, June 24, 1880, was a long parody of Hood’s _Song of the Shirt_, in fourteen verses. “The Lost Child, or Russell’s lament on the loss of his Reform Bill,” a long, political parody of Hood’s _Lost Child_, appeared in _Punch_, February 16, 1867. [Illustration] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (_Continued from Part_ 12)