On January 14, 1880, The World published two competition poems on the model of “Lochiel’s Warning”; the topic selected being:
“1879, its Glory and its Shame.”
First Prize.
John Bull——Old Year.
John Bull—
Old Year, Old Year, I’m glad of the day
That beholds thee, like evil dream, vanish away!
For dejection and shame have companioned thy flight,
From the morn of thy birth to thy final midnight.