Tennyson's The Victim was curiously anticipated by The Prophet Enoch, a poem by James Burton Robertson (London, James Blackwood, 1860), in which the following passage occurs:—
"'One victim more!' a thousand voices cry;
'One victim more!' resounds the cave of gloom.
Lo! borne on lofty car, 'mid savage cries
Of a wild band, a costlier victim comes.
It is a lovely stripling, o'er whose cheek
Youth hath her earliest purple bloom suffused:
In rich luxuriant curls his locks descend,
Twined with the fatal flowers that sweetly mock
The victim they adorn. Wild with despair,