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Editor: F. C. Burnand

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOLUME 104, MAY 6TH 1893

edited by Sir Francis Burnand

A PATHETIC LAMENT.

Then the lurid posters on paling and chimney-stack Were the terror of every town-- Till a League was started by Mr. WILLIAM BLACK For the purpose of putting them down; And the sympathetic invited its efforts to back With an annual half-a-crown.

So I cheerfully paid the fee, and my name was enrolled, And a solemn oath I swore; That, in future, no shop or store Which aggressively advertised any article sold I would patronise any more!

But that mad rash oath I recall with a vain regret, As I brood in bitter complaint, On the number of useful things that I'm dying to get-- And my conscience tells me I mayn't! As their various virtues are vaunted in letters of jet, Or gaudier gilding and paint!

I should like to be clean if I could--but I cannot cope, Without saponaceous aid, With a shower of London smuts--and I'm losing hope, Getting daily a dingier shade, In a futile search for a genuine Toilet-soap That has shunned meretricious parade!

And now I'm developing symptoms of bodily ills, But, however sanguine I've felt, Of a cure from So-and-So's Syrup, Elixir, or Pills, Or his Neuro-magnetic Belt-- Can I buy, when their fame is based on a stratum of bills Down every area dealt?

And even my path to a tranquil tomb is barred While that oath continues to bind; For a coffin and funeral car will be somewhat hard For a faithful adherent to find-- When already each undertaker has left a card With his terms and "inquiries kind"!

TO BLACKHAM'S BOYS.

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