Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893

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( Respectfully addressed to one of the Promoters of the Anti-Advertisement League by a Repentant Subscriber. )
I.
Being gifted with decent taste and a sensitive eye,
I have never been much beguiled
By advertisements, crude in colour, and ten feet high
(Which, in fact, I rather reviled);
And, as for gigantic signs swinging up in the sky—
They drove me perfectly wild!
II.
Then the lurid posters on paling and chimney-stack