O Land! O Land!
For which poor Pat hath plotted,
GLADSTONE, mild herald by kind fate allotted,
Beckons, and with his blessed Bill doth stand,
To lead us with a friendly hand
Into the Land whence we've long been parted,
Into the Irish Land!
Punch, August 13, 1881.
In Punch of October 21, 1882, there was another parody of this poem, entitled "Song of the Oyster Land," by a Longing Fellow, commencing—
"Into the Oyster Land!