LITERARY AND LITERAL. THE March of Mind upon its mighty stilts, Hants Bucks, Herts, Oxon, Got up a thing our ancestors ne'er thought on, A place whose native dialect, somehow, Conceive the snoring of a greedy swine, O shades of Shakspeare! Chaucer! Spenser ! Milton! Pope! Gray! Warton! O Colman! Kenny! Planche! Poole! Peake ! Pocock! Reynolds ! Morton! O Grey! Peel! Sadler! Wilberforce! Burdett! Hume! Wilmot Horton! Think of your prose and verse, and worse From Mr. Roscoe's Liverpool museum ; It chanced one Friday, One Farmer Grayley stuck a very big hog, -de With literary tastes so far from suiting 'em, With him great Bacon Was literally taken, And Hogg - the Poet - nothing but a Hog! Although they were discussed and mentioned daily, He only recognized one classic name, [Baillie! And thought that she had hung herself. Miss To balance this, our Farmer's only daughter The more she dipped and dabbled in the Lakes. Producing what some call the Type-us Fever, Of learning's laurels - Miss Joanna Baillie She thought the world would quite enraptured see "LOVE LAYS AND LYRICS BY A. P. I. G." Accordingly, with very great propriety, That is,- Hog's Norton Blue Stocking Society; And saving when her Pa. his pigs prohibited, Contributed Her pork and poetry towards the mess. This feast, we said, one Friday was the case, When farmer Grayley - from Macbeth to quote Screwing his courage to the "sticking place,” A kind of murder that the law's rebuke The swine poor wretch! with nobody to speak for it, And beg its life, resolved to have a squeak for it; So like the fabled swan died singing out, And, thus, there issued from the farmer's yard An invitation to the evening rout. And when the time came duly,—" at the close of Although the Muse might fairly jest upon it, They came each "Pig-faced Lady," in that bonnet We call a poke. The Members all assembled thus, a rare woman And now arose a question of some moment,- Bacon or Hogg? there were no votes for Beaumont, But some for Flitcher ; While others, with a more sagacious reasoning, Proposed another work, And thought their pork Would prove more relishing from Thomson's Season-ing! But, practised in Shaksperian readings daily,- ton! Miss Anne Priscilla Isabella Grayley Selected him that evening to snort on. In short, to make our story not a big tale, Her talents, and converting |