As she withdrew from forth the studio door,
And I was left alone within the place!
* * * *
From Punch, December, 1879.
There still remain to be quoted a few amusing parodies of Tennyson's early poems, the first in order being Mariana, which was thus closely burlesqued in George Cruikshank's Comic Almanack for 1846.
THE BOW STREET GRANGE.
By Alfred Tennyson.
With blackest mud, the locked-up sots
Were splashed and covered, one and all.