| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Lapsus Calami |
| | | James Kenneth Stephen (1859–92) |
| | | | | To R. K. |
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| WILL there never come a season | |
| Which shall rid us from the curse | |
| Of a prose which knows no reason | |
| And an unmelodious verse: | |
| When the world shall cease to wonder | 5 |
| At the genius of an ass, | |
| And a boy’s eccentric blunder | |
| Shall not bring success to pass: | |
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| When mankind shall be delivered | |
| From the clash of magazines, | 10 |
| And the inkstand shall be shivered | |
| Into countless smithereens: | |
| When there stands a muzzled stripling, | |
| Mute, beside a muzzled bore: | |
| When the Rudyards cease from kipling | 15 |
| And the Haggards ride no more. | |
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