C. H. quotes some lines said to have been written on a window-shutter of
the "Golden Lion," Brecon, when a Mr. Longfellow was proprietor, fifty or
sixty years ago:
"Tom Longfellow's name is most justly his due;
Long his neck, long his bill, which is very long too;
Long the time ere your horse to the stable is led," &c.
These lines remind me of the following passage of the poet Longfellow's in
his _Hyperion_, which, not to speak of a possible plagiarism, has at least
a strange _family_ resemblance:
"If you go to Zurich, beware how you stop at 'The Raven.' I wrote in
the travellers' book--
'Beware of the Raven of Zurich;
'Tis a bird of omen ill,
With a noisy and an unclean breast,
And a very, very long bill.'
"If you go to 'The Golden Falken' you will find it there. I am the
author of those lines--LONGFELLOW."