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Must be the wraith of Castlereagh haunting this ethereal wilderness:
"I met a solitary little fish
He had a face like Percy Bysshe
A whoreson's face he frowned
riding Rebellion into town"
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Hey -- that's real neat, Roger. Where's it from? Or is it your own?
R.
(For some reason, I seem to be currently confusing Castlereigh with Canning,
as Dr. William Maginn wrote a parody, in both Greek and Latin, of Southey's
sapphic attempt in "The Widow". It's published in the +Noctes
Ambrosianae+, I think. How's that for obscure? R pretentious pedant R.
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