A WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA.

(As the Laureate might have adapted it to the opening of the Alexandra Palace).

Muswellian Palace far over the lea,

ALEXANDRA!

Eastern and Western and South are we,

But all of us North in our welcome of thee,

ALEXANDRA!

Welcome it, Times and Telegraph fleet;

Welcome it, Echo, that sells in the street;

Break, Daily News, into rhetoric's flower;

Make "copy," O Standard, and new budded Hour!

Blazon advertisements, concert and play,

Ballet, with Lancers, sportive and gay;

Bertram and Roberts, famed for supply,

Cut from the joint, or savoury pie,

Ices and jellies and nourishing things;

Speckman's wonderful Hall of the Kings;

Warble, O bugle, and trumpet blare,

Flags flutter out upon turrets and towers,

Clash, ye bells, in the rainy May air—

Welcome, welcome, this Palace of ours!

Palace of corridor, vestibule, hall,

Lofty in roofing, with pillars so tall,

Meet for dining and dancing; and, O!

Fireworks—the brightest that mortal may know;

Reach to the roof sudden rocket, and higher,

Melt into stars for the crowd's desire;

Flash, ye rockets, in showers of fire,

Flaming comets shoot swift on the wire—

Welcome it, welcome it, land and sea;

O joy to the populace yet unknown,

We come to thee, love, and make thee our own—

For Camden, Camberwell, Bloomsburee,

Highgate, Belgravia, or Battersea,

We are all of us Muswell in welcome of thee,

ALEXANDRA!

Funny Folks, May 15, 1875.

After Tennyson's

"Flower in the Crannied Wall."

TERRIER in my Granny's hall,

I whistle you out of my Granny's;

Hold you here, tail and all, in my hand,

Little terrier: but if I could understand

What you are, tail and all, and all in all,

I should know what "black and tan" is.

Kottabos, Dublin, 1870.

There have been numerous imitations of In Memoriam, and Mr. William Dobson, in his "Poetical Ingenuities," speaking of parodies, observes:—"One appeared in Punch a number of years ago, called 'Ozokerit,' a travesty of Tennyson's 'In Memoriam,' which has been considered one of the finest ever written." It is unquestionably very clever. Singularly enough it did not appear in the body of Punch at all, but on the outside wrapper, as an advertisement, so that many people who have bound sets of Punch will not find the parody, which was as follows:—