'To John Forster'

From a letter to John Forster (August 1838).

Dickens, Charles

'To John Forster.' Letter to John Forster. [? August 1838]. The Letters of Charles Dickens. The Pilgrim Edition. Edited by Madeline House and Graham Storey. Volume 1 (1820-1839), p. 427. Oxford University Press, 1965.

Parody of William Cowper's 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin', last stanza:

Now let us sing, 'Long live the king,
And Gilpin, long live he;
And when he next doth ride abroad,
May I be there to see!'

Dickens, Charles. 'To John Forster' (August 1838). Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1838-08_Letter_To_John_Forster_Poem.

So let us scream long live the Queen
And Jerdan long live he,
And when he dies, let’s have no more
Of sitch humbuggere.