Freedom hangs on every blow,
Oh! to conquer or to die!
Printed for J. Hatchard, 190, Piccadilly,
Price Three-pence per dozen.
J. Hales, Old Boswell Court. No date.
Wing-Kee-Fum’s
Address to the Patriot’s Army.
A Parody, with the above title, was published in Diogenes (a London comic journal), in September, 1853. It was in reference to the Revolution in China against the Tartar dynasty, when the rebels made it incumbent upon their adherents to shave off their pigtails, hitherto the badge of the conquered race. As the parody has little merit or historical interest, the following extracts will suffice:—
Cut away! No coward fears
Shall restrain our warlike shears;
We shout defiance in the ears