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With you and mild Mundella I faced the dread cyclone When my superb umbrella clean inside out was blown,—

When chiefs renowned in story betrayed their sacred

trust,

Turned timorously Tory or vilely bit the dust.

But Fate's resistless firmans at length ordained that I Should edit Butler's Sermons and bid the House good

bye :

For now the tide is shifting; it flows, alas! no more ; And you are seaward drifting, while I am safe on shore.

As soon as you are able, with me you'll come and dine, Refreshing at my table your war-worn frame with wine, Where, heedless of the censure of Lawson or of Caine, We'll toast your valiant venture in bumpers of cham

pagne.

Oblivioso levia Massico

Ciboria exple; funde capacibus

Unguenta de conchis. Quis udo

Deproperare apio coronas

Curatve myrto? Quem Venus arbitrum

Dicet bibendi? Non ego sanius

Bacchabor Edonis: recepto

Dulce mihi furere est amico.

Johannisberg, my jo, John, a tipple fit for kings,

Shall in your honour flow, John, and lend our fancy

wings:

Or if in Scottish whisky dull care you'd rather drown, Glenlivet, fine and frisky, our flowing cups shall crown.

Then, as we wet our whistle with draughts of 'comet' port,

You'll wreathe your brows with thistle, while I the sham

rock sport.

'Conspicuous moderation' for once I bid begone

When Scotland, noble nation, 'returns' our Honest

John.

AD VALGIUM

NON semper imbres nubibus hispidos

Manant in agros aut mare Caspium

Vexant inaequales procellae

Usque, nec Armeniis in oris,

Amice Valgi, stat glacies iners

Menses per omnes aut Aquilonibus

Querceta Gargani laborant

Et foliis viduantur orni :

TO SILOMO

NOT always, O Silomo, upon the Polish coast

Or on the Lake of Como, do Cossacks rule the roast;

Nor, though your Sheffield bruisers would have it so, can

we

Be always sending cruisers to scour the Caspian Sea.

The fierce Armenian peasant, cowed by your burning

words,

Is not employed at present in butchering the Kurds:

Nor does the Russian blizzard unceasingly assail

The Turkey's gentle gizzard, the Lion's tender tail.

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