I FEEL that I am quite as smart
As Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart.
I’ m also every bit as bright
As Walter Scott, the Scottish knight;
And in my own peculiar way
I’ m just as good as Thackeray.
But, woe is me that it should be,
They got here years ahead of me,
And all the tales I would unfold
By them already have been told.