The low dull herd will land her “up a tree.”

Why will they not send Gladstone’s gang away,

And leave the world to Whigdom and to Me?

Punch. September 10, 1881.


A Perversion.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its fragrance on the desert air;

Full oft, the filthy oleomargarine

Is served as premium butter from a fair,