I Read the 'Christabel'; <br />Very well: <br />I read the Missionary'; <br />Pretty - very <br />I tried at Ilderim ; <br />Ahem! <br />I read a sheet of 'Marg'ret of Anjou'; <br />Can you? <br />I turn'd a page of Scott's 'Waterloo'; <br />Pooh! pooh! <br />I look'd at Wordsworth's milk-white <br />'Rylstone Doe'; <br />Hillo! <br />&c. &c. &c. <br /> <br />March 1817.<br /><br />George Gordon Byron<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/versicles/
