The four following Parodies appeared in a Prize Competition in One and All, 1879:—
A Traveller’s Farewell to his Train.
(Which he thinks he has missed while lunching at York.)
My railway train, my railway train, that stoodst all steaming by,
With thy paraffin and oily lamps and one red gleaming eye.
Thou goest to fly along the line with all thy wheelèd speed;
I cannot ride in thee again—I’m sold, I am indeed!
Puff not with that impatient blast; cleave not the breezy wind;
The farther that thou fliest now, so far am I behind: