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Thread #172465 Message #4174305
Posted By: Jack Horntip
10-Jun-23 - 06:05 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rain and Sorrow (Beside A Babbling Brook)
Subject: RE: Origins: RAIN AND SORROW Beside A Babbling Brook
THE OTHER SIDE.
The lad who wrote that little note About the moonlight mellow, The shady nook, the babbling brook, The lady,--and her fellow,-- Was well nigh right to say next night You'd finder her with another Who hugged the shore,--and something more,-- Thrice closer than a brother; But he left out the rest about The first one who had kissed her; The jilted one was not so slow As to let on he missed her. But he found, too, another who Enjoyed the brook so shady, And while she had another lad He had another lady.
This poem/song is a parody-response to the above. Found in Cornell Verse, pg 170, 1901.