English poem
On An Event In Col. Evans’S Redoubted Performances In Spain
Mrs. Wordsworth sent this to Henry Crabb Robinson in 1837, “to show you that we can write an Epigram--we do not say a good one.” She then quoted it, and added, “The Producer thinks it not amiss, as being murmured between sleep and awake over the fire, while thinking of you last night!”--Ed.
The Ball whizzed by,--it grazed his ear, And whispered as it flew, “I only touch--not take--don’t fear, For both, my honest Buccaneer! Are to the Pillory due.”
1838
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