Till all such dragon thoughts had coiled away.

He took his chair. The great debate began.

For prelude came a menacing growl of storm.

A furious figure rose, like a sperm-whale,

Out of the seething audience. A huge man,

With small, hot, wicked eyes and cavernous mouth,

Bellowed his own ferocious claim to speak

On economic grounds. He had subscribed

His guineas, ringing guineas of red gold,

Ungrudgingly for years; but prophesied