As if a sunstroke in some tropic land
Had made his too colossal brain expand
More than it ought; and on his face odd smiles
Would come sometimes, and then he’d laughing stand,
Clutching his gown, and talking loud meanwhiles.
He wore a college cap, the mouldiest of tiles.
Lays of Modern Oxford, by Adon, 1874.
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Cabul—September, 1879.
The following poem obtained the first prize in a parody competition in The World. Subject: “Cabul in September, 1879,” treated in the style of Lord Byron’s Siege of Corinth.