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Truth. June 14, 1877.
This parody is much too long to give in full, as is also the following, on a similar topic, and which, by a curious coincidence, appeared in Truth exactly six years later:—
Paradise Lost.
This week a Peeress at the gate
Of Ascot stood disconsolate—
(The Royal Enclosure Gate is meant)
And as in misery she bent,
And gazed upon the lonely scene
Where life a week before was teeming,