To greet and feast great Beaconsfield, to banquet with his friends.
As grand as was the Show this year, so may it next year be;
Heaven send us such another sight, and take me there to see.
Sphinx (Captain J. A. Barlow, 96th Reg.)
Second Prize.
Come hither, children, for you love your grandsires tales, I know—
I’ll tell you of the Lord Mayor’s Show I saw long years ago;
What time the gallant ’prentice band came forth with gibe and jeer
To flout the civic monarch whom they had been used to cheer.
It was a fine November day, the year of the Zulu war,