Punch, December 17, 1859.
(During the ridiculous panic about a supposed imminent French invasion in 1859, four Liverpool gentlemen wrote a letter to Napoleon III. asking him to publicly declare what his intentions were towards England.)
The Lasher at Iffley.
Eight coveys went out in their college boat,
And they feathered their oars as the water they cut,
Each thought of the races, and what they would do,
And Harvey stood watching them out of the gut.
For men must row and coxswains must steer,
And carefully too, as the races draw near,