Like a sister,
When he should have smacked her
To delight her,
Doffed his mitre,
And became an Actor!
F. B. Doveton.
LORD TENNYSON’S JUBILEE ODE.
The April number of Macmillan’s Magazine contained the Poet Laureate’s contribution to Jubilee literature. As usual, portions of the Ode were quoted in the London papers almost before the magazine was published, and The Daily News went so far as to reprint the whole of the Ode, an infringement of Messrs. Macmillan’s rights, for which an apology had to be made. As to the poetical merits of the Ode public opinion has been tolerably well expressed by the parodies on it which have appeared. A few verses of the original are here given, to lead up to the parodies.