It stands not where you stand;
Quit Jingo, and in go
For Lib’ralism grand.
Funny Folks, March 5, 1887.
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The Banquet, a Political Satire, by Mr. George Cotterell, was published in 1885 by William Blackwood & Sons. Like most political squibs its interest was somewhat ephemeral, but it contained several amusing parodies of Tennyson, and of Swinburne. Some of those on Tennyson have already been quoted, the following extracts are taken from a parody of Swinburne’s “Dolores,” entitled
The Radical Programme.
(After the Franchise Bill.)
The days of the dunces are over,
The wiles of the Whigs are undone,