And my dreams by that vile vulture,
Who my sadness does ignore,
Will be nightmared—Evermore.
Somers Bellamy.
Under the Clock. March, 21, 1885.
A Welcome to Battenberg.
Shortly after it was publicly announced that the Queen had given her consent to the marriage of the Princess Beatrice with Prince Henry of Battenberg, the following paragraph appeared in Funny Folks:
“Certain members of the Royal Family do not like the betrothed of the Princess Beatrice. This may be; but, anyway, nobody will deny that if we have a Poet Laureate, he ought now and again do something for his salary. Whether any rumours have reached Lord Tennyson on the subject, I can’t say; but it is a remarkable fact that the day after such an opinion was expressed in this office the following communication was dropped into the editorial box:
A New Welcome in an old Form.