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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893

Author: Various

Editor: Francis Burnand

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Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 104.

FEBRUARY 18, 1893.

PHANTASMA-GORE-IA!

_Picturing the Various Modes of Melodramatic Murder._ (_By Our
"Off-his"-Head Poet._)

NO. IV.--THE "OVER-THE-CLIFF" MURDER.

[Illustration]

It may be this--that the Villain base
Has insulted the hero's girl;
It may be this--that he's brought disgrace
On a wretchedly-acted Earl.
I care not which it may chance to be,
Only this do I chance to know--
A cliff looks down at a canvas sea
And some property rocks below!

You say, perhaps, it is only there
From a love of the picturesque--
You hint, maybe, that it takes no share
In the plot of this weird burlesque;
But cliffs that tremble at every touch,
And that flap in the dreadful draught,
Have something better to do--ah, much!
Than to criticise Nature's craft!

The cliff is there, and the ocean too,
And the property rocks below.
(These last, as yet, don't appear to you,
But they're somewhere behind, I know.)
The cliff is there, and the sea besides
(As I fancy I've said before),
And yonder alone _the_ Villain hides
Who is thirsting for someone's gore!

And now there comes to the Villain bold
The unfortunate Villain Two.