And lights her girlish face.
"In foreign tones she murmurs, 'O, the bliss
Of art that triumphs on a perfect stage;
The thunders of applause, and e'en the hiss
That tells of Envy's rage!'"
A parody on the same original, entitled A Dream of Great Players (in reference to Lawn Tennis) appeared, on the 13th February, 1884, in Pastime, an ably conducted journal, devoted to out-door games and recreations. Unlike most of the sporting papers, Pastime has a distinctly literary tone, and publishes, from time to time, clever parodies of our modern poets. Two have appeared on Tennyson's blank verse, the first (June 29, 1883), entitled A Fragment of the Lost Tennisiad; the second, which was much longer, appeared in the number for July 27, 1883, and commenced thus:—
THE LAY OF THE SEVENTH TOURNAMENT.
All the long week Lawn-tennis balls had rolled