Enoch Ardern (Boiled Down.)

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3034, 5 November 1878, Page 1

Enoch Ardern (Boiled Down.)

[Written by a gentleman in Melbourne immediately after Tennyson's poem was published, on being aßked by a lady for a description of it.] Phillip Bay and Enoch Arden Both were " spoons " on Annie Lee; Phil did not fulfil her wishei, She preferred to mate with E. Him she wedded, and she tare him Pretty little ohildren three; But, becoming short of rhino, Enoch went away to sea. Leaving Mrs Arden owner Of a well-stocked village shop; Selling butter, soap, and treacle, Beeswax, whipcord, lollipop. Ten long years she waited for him, ' But he neither came, nor wrote; Wherefore she concluded Enoch' Could no longer be afloat. ! So when Phillip came to ask her If she would be Mrs Bay, ' She believing she was widowed, Could not tay bar suitor " nay." And s second time was married, Gave up selling bread and cheese, And in due time Phillip nursed a Little Bay upon bis knees. But, alas! the long-lost Enoch Turned up unexpectedly, And was vastly disconcerted By this sot of bigamy. Yet reflecting on the subject, He determined to atone For his lengthened absence from her, By just leariag well alone. . Taking to bis bad he dwindled Down to something like a shade, Settled with his good landlady, Next, the debt of nature paid. Then, when both the Bays discovered How poor Enoch's life had ended, They came but in handsome style, and Gave his corpse a funeral splendid. . This is all I know about it, If its not sufficient, write By next mail to Alfred TennySon, PL., the Isle of Wight.