With lightning and with thunderbolt beweaponed,

And all to be assured—this was the ground

On which he did it—that I came for certain,

If such be so, at least to-day’s good chance

That puts you in my hands I’ll use to profit

And say, as he, when speeches on your office

Begin—“If you conduct it as you should

It does not need your every wink o’ the eye.

You come so seldom that it seems you’re loath

To be here!”