From Harry Furniss’s Royal Academy; an Artistic Joke. London. 1887.
Unfortunately the humour of this parody greatly depended on Mr. Furniss’s funny illustration of the great god Pan, en deshabille, as an artist’s model.
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A long and rather serious poem written in imitation of Mrs. Browning’s style, appears in The Book of Ballads, edited by Bon Gaultier, published by Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh. It commences thus:—
The Rhyme of Sir Launcelot Bogle.
A Legend of Glasgow.
There’s a pleasant place of rest, near a City of the West,
Where its bravest and its best find their grave.
Below the willows weep, and their hoary branches steep
In the waters still and deep,