On the lunatic’s nerves it jarred;
It reached the length of the carriage,
But it never reached the guard.
It may be a grand invention
At the distant guard to get;
But I’ve tried it in twenty cases,
And I’ve never succeeded yet.
George R. Sims.
From The Lifeboat, and other Poems. 1883.
The following Volunteer parody, of the same original, recently appeared in the First Lanark Gazette.—