Beware lest shades more darkling come
With gloomier writings on the wall.
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons to careless trust should ne'er be slaves.
Mr. Gladstone and his Successor
Yet when Mr. Gladstone resigned the premiership, early in 1894, Punch's tribute is an unqualified eulogy of the "Lancelot of our lists":—
"Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done."
This is no Antony; here's a nobler one;
Yet like the Roman his great course is run.
From source to sea a fair full-flooded flow