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to write some other verse Some better, and some vastly worse. I meant to write, and never did, And now the coining Schools forbid. I'll mention what I hoped to sing To guard against all trespassing.

One on the Franco-Prussian War (It never had been done before) But now, I render thanks to Allah, It has been done by P. G - - d - ll -.

I had a very real wish To write a trifling thing on fish It was The Goldfish at the Tate— That one I fear will have to wait.

A Ballad of the Law Prelim. (That one was rather like a hymn.) Some musings that I had to burn For being too like Laurence Sterne, These would have done exceeding well As a racy villanelle.