And hark! like the roar of the surf upon the shore,
The cry of battle rises along our loyal line!
For Union! for the Cause! for the Church! for the Laws!
For Salisbury the Splendid, and for Joseph the Divine!
(Nine verses omitted.)
Punch. July 24, 1886.
There was also a political parody in Punch, February 12, 1887, comparing Lord Randolph Churchill to Quintus Curtius, and another on May 26, 1888, entitled “A Ballad of a late occurrence” addressed to Lord Wolseley, and written in imitation of Macaulay’s The Armada.
Landbillia.
(Fragments of a Lay sung in the Via Celera the week after the great Battle between the proud Patrician Furius Cecilius Salburius, and the Tribune Billius Gladstonius, great Champion of the Commons, and framer of Agrarian Laws.)