Of all the hundreds grant but three
To fight anew Mackonochie.
From Jon Duan, by the authors of The Coming K—— and The Siliad. Weldon and Co., London, 1874.
Another imitation of the same original commencing—
“The isles decrease, the isles decrease,
The last fog-signal now has rung,”
occurs in Faust and Phisto, Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1876, but it has no literary interest, nor merit as a parody.
The Claims of Greece.
The Claims of Greece! The Claims of Greece!