"The Victim," above referred to, which also had appeared in "Good Words," was the subject of the following witty parody, in which the versification of the original is closely imitated:—
"THE VICTIM."
NOT by Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate,
(See Good Words, January 1, 1868).
I.
A plague upon the people fell,
A plague of writers high and low,
There were some wrote ill, and some wrote well,
And the Novel, the Novel was all the go;