FATE!

I FEEL that I am quite as smart

As Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart.

I’ m also every bit as bright

As Walter Scott, the Scottish knight;

And in my own peculiar way

I’ m just as good as Thackeray.

But, woe is me that it should be,

They got here years ahead of me,

And all the tales I would unfold

By them already have been told.