And we’ll mark that M.P. for a short-sighted scamp
Who grudges one mil for the Chobhamite Camp.
Shirley Brooks. 1853.
——:o:——
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte, of Wales.
(In imitation of Cowper’s dirge on the loss of the “Royal George.”)
Wail for the dead!
And rend thy streaming hair,
Thou fairest Island-Queen
That ever ocean bare!