Unread his works――his “Milk White Doe”[75] With dust is dark and dim; It’s still in Longman’s shop, and oh! The difference to him. This clever parody was written by Hartley Coleridge, whose character Wordsworth prophetically divined when he was but six years old:―― “O blessed vision! happy child! Thou art so exquisitely wild, I think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years.” ―――― JACOB. He dwelt among “Apartments let,” About five stories high; A man, I thought, that none would get, And very few would try. A boulder, by a larger stone Half hidden in the mud, Fair as a man when only one Is in the neighbourhood. He lived unknown, and few could tell When Jacob was not free; But he has got a wife,――and O! The difference to me! From _Poems and Parodies_, by Phœbe Carey. Boston, United States, 1854. ―――― EMANCIPATION. She dwelt within unyielding stays That kept her bolt upright, A nymph whose waist won doubtful praise, She laced so very tight. A maiden by a kirtle dun Half hidden from the eye, A single skirt when only _one_ Was worn by low and high. She burst her bonds at last, and so With perfect ease can stir. She wears “_divided skirts_,” and oh! The difference to her!! F. B. DOVETON. ――――:o:―――― THE REJECTED ADDRESSES. Wordsworth was one of the authors selected to be imitated in _The Rejected Addresses_. These were supposed to be the compositions sent in by competing poets on the occasion of the opening of the new Drury Lane Theatre in October, 1812. They were all written by the Brothers James and Horace Smith, this imitation of Wordsworth being the work of James Smith. _The Edinburgh Review_ for November, 1812, contained an article (written by Jeffrey) on _The Rejected Addresses_, in which, referring to this particular poem, the reviewer remarks:――“The author does not attempt to copy any of the higher attributes of Mr. Wordsworth’s poetry; but has succeeded perfectly in the imitation of his mawkish affectations of childish simplicity and nursery stammering. We hope it will make him ashamed of his ‘Alice Fell,’ and the greater part of his last volumes――of which it is by no means a parody, but a very fair, and indeed we think a flattering imitation.” THE BABY’S DEBUT. “Thy lisping prattle and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimic fooleries I hate; For thou art Folly’s counterfeit, and she Who is right foolish hath the better plea; Nature’s true Idiot I prefer to thee.” CUMBERLAND. [_Spoken in the character of Nancy Lake, a girl eight years of age, who is drawn upon the stage in a child’s chaise by Samuel Hughes, her uncle’s porter._]