Puck on Pegasus / Fourth Edition

by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell

'THE POET CLOSE.'

(Mr. "Barney Maguire's" Account.)

CH! botheration! what a perturbation

And exasperation in the Press arose,

At the first mintion of the Queen's intintion

To confer a pinsion on the Poet Close!

There was the True-Blues-Man and the Farthing—

Newsman

All in the confushan fighting cheek by jowl;