StoryTitle("caps", "Lord Lundy") ?>
(Second Canto)
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PoemLine("L0", "", "It happened to Lord Lundy then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As happens to so many men:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toward the age of twenty-six,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The shoved him into politics;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In which profession he commanded", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The income that his rank demanded", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In turn as Secretary for", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "India, the Colonies, and War.", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "But very soon his friends began", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To doubt if he were quite the man:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus, if a member rose to say", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(As members do from day to day)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Arising out of that reply . . . !\"", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Lord Lundy would begin to cry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Hint at harmless little jobs", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would shake him with convulsive sobs.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While as for Revelations, these ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would simply bring him to his knees, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And leave him whimpering like a child. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It drove his colleagues raving wild! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They let him sink from Post to Post, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From fifteen hundred at the most ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To eight, and barely six—and then ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To be Curator of Big Ben!. . . ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And finally there came a Threat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To oust him from the Cabinet! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Duke—his aged grand-sire—bore ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The shame till he could bear no more. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He rallied his declining powers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Summoned the youth to Brackley Towers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bitterly addressed him thus—", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Sir! you have disappointed us! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We had intended you to be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The next Prime Minister but three: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The stocks were sold; the Press was squared: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Middle Class was quite prepared. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But as it is! . . . My language fails! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go out and govern New South Wales!\" ", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "The Aged Patriot groaned and died: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And gracious! how Lord Lundy cried!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>