The Elderly Gentleman
Appearance
- "By the side of a murmuring Stream" in School Songs (ed.) by Henry Formby (1853).
- "Wig, Hat, and Cane" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (ed.) by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
Sometimes attributed to George Canning, this poem is a parody of Nicholas Rowe's "Colin's Complaint".