Punch: Punch (78.1880)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[Mat 8, 1880.

A MAY MEETING.

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President. Welcome, Sir ! 11Welcome

as the flowers in May !
Premier. Thanks! London’s Drightest
May flow’rs, one might say,
Are those that yearly bloom upon your walls,

Art’s annual blossomings.

President {aside). And Clubdom calls

This man austere, ungracious ! {Aloud.) Sir, l nope,
Without o’erduly stretching your neat trope,

This year’s pictorial parterre may please
The cultured taste that, like the Attic bees,

Has supped from classic chalices.

Premier {aside). , V?,e-’ sa^ f ,,

This man’s mock-Greek! {Aloud.) The grace ot the

old day, ..

The glory that was Greece, now lives again
On Leighton’s Canvass.