From no point of view could I make head or tail
Of the plan, the perspective, the plot;
Though ’twas all on a truly magnificent scale,
If I knew what it meant I’ll be shot.
* * * * *
From Harry Furniss’s Royal Academy. 1887.
There was another parody in Punch for August 20, 1887, commencing thus:—
I dreamt that I gazed at the Marble Arch,
King Fog and King Coal at my side;
The soot of November, the dust storms of March,