Parody of Tennyson'sTo Edward Lear on His Travels in Greece
By Edward Lear
Delirious Bulldogs; -- echoing calls
My daughter, -- green as summer grass; --
The long supine Plebeian ass,
The nasty crockery boring falls; --
Tom-Moory Pathos; -- all things bare, --
With such a turket! such a hen!
And scrambling forms of distant men,
O! ain't you glad you were not there!
[from Later Letters of Edward Lear, 1911,28 February 1872]