Withdraw my bluff face.
When walnuts, and cabbage,
And onions are gone,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?
Anonymous.
In The Weekly Dispatch for May 22, 1881, there was a parody competition, and the prize of Two Guineas was awarded for the following poem:
Lord Randolph Churchill.
[Since the defection of his three friends, the once famous “Fourth” party consists of Lord Randolph alone.—Daily Paper.]