(Written in the Train by an Irate Traveller.)

["The English landscape is being transformed into a dumping-ground for catchpenny eyesores."—See the "Nineteenth Century" for June.]

For Soap and Pill each English slope and hill

Is now a background, and the cry is, "Still

They come;" these public nuisances, that mar

The fair earth's face, like some unsightly scar.

Who possibly can care, I ask, to learn

That Juno Soap Saves Washing, or to turn

A gaze disgusted on some blatant board,