Lo! in the hollows of Hades I hear the lamenting of LUBBOCK,
Bart., who declares that HOMERUS (or somebody else of the same name,
One or the other, or both, or perhaps a collection of poets)--
LUBBOCK, I say, who declares that the sale of my poems is paltry,
Says he is sorry to see me reduced to the state of a wall-flower!
But as a matter of fact I have got an immense circulation,
Chiefly in Oxford and Cambridge and Eton and other _palæstræ_.
SOPHOCLES pushes me close, but PINDAR is out of the running,
Being a bit too stiff, though the cost is defrayed by the parents.
As for the rest, I consider HERODOTUS very deserving;
Quaintly enough at this moment I see he is writing about me,
Writing to say he considers HOMERUS exceedingly clever.
Who, by the way, is a Mr. LE GALLIENNE? He, as they tell me,
Prattles a lot on his private affairs for the good of the public.