OH, MY PROPHETIC SOUL, MY PUNCHIUS!
["Punch made a great hit" (in his last Cartoon "A Doubtful Stayer"), "and will probably take credit to himself for having been one of the very few who 'tipped' Sir Visto for the Derby."—Leeds Mercury.]
Thanks, Mercury, thanks! Acclaim from all ranks
Declares Mr. Punch is the prophet to follow.
The Public rejoices, and Mercury voices
The popular praise due to Punchius Apollo.
The oracular god, with a genial nod,
Admits that he knew it, foresaw it, and said it!
But oh, deary, deary! His pen it would weary
If for all his successful straight tips he "took credit."