His last words have lived in the lines of the rhymer: "Fight on, my men, Yet Fortune she may turn the scale; And for my wounds be not dismayed, Nor ever let your courage fail.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
When Elliott, the Corn-law rhymer was asked, "What is a Communist?"
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Du Maurier on one occasion sticks up for Swinburne as "the writer of lovely verses-the weaver of words-the rhymer of rhymes."
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood