WOODMEN, SPARE THOSE TREES!
New (New Forest) Version.
[Mr. Auberon Herbert says "the rapacious and spendthrift" woodmen of the Crown have recently felled two hundred oaks in the New Forest.]
Woodmen, spare those trees!
You're playing up rare jokes
In felling, at your ease,
Hundreds of British oaks.
We'd ax you stay your axe.
Come! no official rot!
Or Punch's wrath may wax,