THE PALACE OF ART.
(A Parody, which it is requested may not occur to anybody during the Inauguration of the Exhibition, 1862).
I BUILT my Cole a lordly pleasure house,
Wherein to walk like any Swell:
I said, "O Cole, make merry and carouse,
Dear Cole, for all is well."
(Here follows an exquisite description of the said pleasure-house, also known as the International Exhibition. After four hundred and ninety-seven verses comes the last).
But Cole, C.B., replied, "'Tis long, your story,
And here's a Rummy Start;
Dilke walks in glory with a Hand that's Gory,