I had sown the wind, and I needs must reap
The whirlwind after the race was run!
There’s nobody on the Grand Stand now,
Where a week ago such a concourse met;
The best of the sight after all, I vow,
Was the ladies lawn, with its luncheons set,
Though that looks sad enough now, I trow!
Gossamer.
The Weekly Dispatch. June 25, 1882.
Another parody also appeared in Punch, July 24, 1886, entitled:—