DOI issue:
September 28, 1867
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16880#0138
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
126
[September 28, 1867.
MR. TITWILLOW IN PARIS. (Vide Page 131.)
“ ABOARD THE ANGLICAN.”
(A Nautical Ballad for the Times.)
’Twas a driving bark on an ocean dark,
Blue Peter at the fore,
And she hailed another driving bark,
That, like her, laboured sore.
“ Aboard the Anglican, a-hoy ! ”—
“ Ay, ay ! what ship are yon ? ”—
“ The Roman Bark, the Church’s ark,”—
“ What cheer ? Bad. Yours ? " Bad, too!
“ We’ve lost our course : our binnacle,
Compass and light, is floored—
Our sails out of the bolt-ropes blown,
And no spare suit aboard.
“ There’s shoals that hide beneath the tide,
And rocks above that show :
The Ritual reefs, on our lee-beam,
Rational sands below.
“ We’ve stuck like Britons to our pumps—
Stuck to them, p’rhaps, too long :
We’ve put our trust in lead and log—-
A trust, perhaps, too strong.
“ Por pumps—though with the mitre marked
(The Anglican Broad-arrow) —
And lead and log,—whate’er their Church,
High or Low, Broad or Narrow—
“ Are scarce the means to face the storm
Which sets us both careering :
More use, they say, in well-set sails.
Stout tackle and bold steering.
“ But half our crew says, 'here's the course ’—
And t’other half says ‘ there’
And mates and captain, half by one,
And half by t’other, swear—
“ And so we’ve signalled far and wide,
‘ Ran-Anglicans, a-hoy ! ’
Not to say how to work the ship,
Or show shoal-light, or buoy—
“ But to decide what coat of paint
She ’ll look the bravest in,
To help to gild her figure-head,
And scrape her rudder-pin :
“ And then we ’ll fall to saying prayers,
And nail the dead-lights to :
And if that doesn’t save the ship.
We know not what we ’ll do ! ”
CONVEYANCE BY THE KING OE PRUSSIA.
At Homburg, according to a letter in the Post, there has lately been
going on a sale at the Chateau of all the porcelain, glass, miniatures,
and dressing-room ornaments of the late Landgravine—the English
Princess Elizabeth. The Duke op Cambridge was one of the
purchasers, and :—
“ The King of Prussia has also requested some to be put asidalfor him, and
signified his intention of not paying for his lots, although all these things were left
to the Princess Alice.”
His Majesty, the King op Prussia, in signifying his intention of
not paying for the lots which he intended to take, took superfluous
trouble. Who upon Earth would ever suppose that his most rapacious
Majesty would ever think of paying for anything whatever which he
could seize upon ?
WANTED, A FATHER.
Why is the Reform Bill like the new melodrama at the Surrey ?
Because it is Nobody’s Child.
126
[September 28, 1867.
MR. TITWILLOW IN PARIS. (Vide Page 131.)
“ ABOARD THE ANGLICAN.”
(A Nautical Ballad for the Times.)
’Twas a driving bark on an ocean dark,
Blue Peter at the fore,
And she hailed another driving bark,
That, like her, laboured sore.
“ Aboard the Anglican, a-hoy ! ”—
“ Ay, ay ! what ship are yon ? ”—
“ The Roman Bark, the Church’s ark,”—
“ What cheer ? Bad. Yours ? " Bad, too!
“ We’ve lost our course : our binnacle,
Compass and light, is floored—
Our sails out of the bolt-ropes blown,
And no spare suit aboard.
“ There’s shoals that hide beneath the tide,
And rocks above that show :
The Ritual reefs, on our lee-beam,
Rational sands below.
“ We’ve stuck like Britons to our pumps—
Stuck to them, p’rhaps, too long :
We’ve put our trust in lead and log—-
A trust, perhaps, too strong.
“ Por pumps—though with the mitre marked
(The Anglican Broad-arrow) —
And lead and log,—whate’er their Church,
High or Low, Broad or Narrow—
“ Are scarce the means to face the storm
Which sets us both careering :
More use, they say, in well-set sails.
Stout tackle and bold steering.
“ But half our crew says, 'here's the course ’—
And t’other half says ‘ there’
And mates and captain, half by one,
And half by t’other, swear—
“ And so we’ve signalled far and wide,
‘ Ran-Anglicans, a-hoy ! ’
Not to say how to work the ship,
Or show shoal-light, or buoy—
“ But to decide what coat of paint
She ’ll look the bravest in,
To help to gild her figure-head,
And scrape her rudder-pin :
“ And then we ’ll fall to saying prayers,
And nail the dead-lights to :
And if that doesn’t save the ship.
We know not what we ’ll do ! ”
CONVEYANCE BY THE KING OE PRUSSIA.
At Homburg, according to a letter in the Post, there has lately been
going on a sale at the Chateau of all the porcelain, glass, miniatures,
and dressing-room ornaments of the late Landgravine—the English
Princess Elizabeth. The Duke op Cambridge was one of the
purchasers, and :—
“ The King of Prussia has also requested some to be put asidalfor him, and
signified his intention of not paying for his lots, although all these things were left
to the Princess Alice.”
His Majesty, the King op Prussia, in signifying his intention of
not paying for the lots which he intended to take, took superfluous
trouble. Who upon Earth would ever suppose that his most rapacious
Majesty would ever think of paying for anything whatever which he
could seize upon ?
WANTED, A FATHER.
Why is the Reform Bill like the new melodrama at the Surrey ?
Because it is Nobody’s Child.