Clement Scott

Clement William Scott (1841–1904) was an English drama critic, playwright and poet, born in London. He worked as a clerk in the War Office before becoming dramatic critic of the Daily Telegraph in 1879.

His verse appeared in Lays of a Londoner (1882) and Lays and Legends (1888). The poem here comes from Edmund Clarence Stedman's A Victorian Anthology (1895).