Conservatism, Finality, Laissez-Faire and Statu Quo,
Are glad to shake hands with "the Tenth," till very proud I grow.
At home, abroad, inside and out, you think you read me true,
But when did ever Whig know man's or people's heart all through?
I am all that you style me, when your praise on me you pour;
All that, my Lord, but take my word, with that I'm something more.
I read your speech, the other night, when Hume, my stout old friend,
Asked of the House, as you did once, the suffrage to extend.
'Twas the use you then made of my name that hath these lines begot—
Hear what the Tenth of April is, and hear what it is not.