You Are Old, Father William is now mostly forgotten, and only the parody is remembered. Carroll's parody "undermines the pious didacticism of Southey's original and gives Father William an eccentric vitality that rebounds upon his idiot questioner". Martin Gardner calls it "one of the undisputed masterpieces of nonsense verse". Since then, it has been parodied further, including more than 20 versions by 1886 a version by Charles Larcom Graves, a writer for "Punch" in 1889, and "You are young, Kaiser William". In the Walt Disney animated film "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) the first stanza of the poem is recited by Tweedledee and Tweedledum as a
John Byrom headed with "Christmas Day for Dolly", was first published in Harrop's "Manchester Mercury" in 1746. Although Byrom is probably best remembered for this Christmas carol, he was regarded by his contemporaries as a poet and a literary man. Most of his poems, the best-known of which is "My spirit longeth for Thee", were religious in tone. He is also remembered for his epigrams and, above all, his coinage of the phrase "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" (in connection with a dispute about the merits of the two composers, Handel and Bononcini). Byrom did not lead an ordinary provincial life. He was a