Like them an Earl of Thackeray, and p’r’aps a Duke of Dickens—
Lord Fildes and Viscount Millais (when they come) we’ll welcome sweetly,
And then this happy country will be Anglicised completely!
It really is surprising
What a thorough Anglicising
We’ve brought about—Utopia’s quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England, with improvements,
Which we dutifully offer to our mother-land!
W. S. Gilbert.