Where their dastardly banner wears Christendom’s sign,
In type that each fight is a Cross, we opine?
’Tis the fair land of Greece, whose demoralised son
Exults in the hope that the Russians have won.
Oh! wild are his accents, when telegraphs tell
That our soldiers are doing their duty right well.
Shirley Brooks, 1854.
A Lesson for Ladies.
“While the Lord Mayor elect and some friends were inspecting the preparations for the Guildhall feast, the Lady Mayoress unhesitatingly declared with reference to the turtle, that ‘she did not like the nasty stuff!’”—Daily News.