Into corners, anywhere.

I silently laugh at my own cruel chaff;

And deriding man’s hopes so vain,

From a sky all gloom, to an earth like a tomb,

I come down a drencher again!

Punch. November 27, 1880, but equally appropriate in 1888.

——:o:——

Seaward.

The bathers are splashing,

The spaniels are dashing,