Address to Mr. Cross, of Exeter 'Change on the Death of the Elephant
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Poetry |
Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine |
Subjects: | Menageries, Periodicals |
The poem descants on the universal grief at the death of the elephant: 'Reporter's eyes / Were of an egg-like size, / Men that had never wept for murder'd Mars! / Hard-hearted editors with iron faces / Their sluices all unclosed,— / And discomposed / Compositors went fretting to their cases!' (238). | |
See also: | ML1/7/186/1, ML1/7/186/2, ML1/7/186/3, ML1/7/186/4, ML1/7/186/5, ML1/7/186/6 |
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