Placards on walls were glowing,

Puffs in the papers pouring,

"Good Words" roaring and blowing,

"Once a Week" blowing and roaring!

Or, "another way," as the cookery books say—

A PARODY,

After Tennyson's Last.

TENNYSON stood in the wet,

And he and his publishers met,

His publishers cursing and swearing,