Why? I can't see the reason."

It was too much. His Lordship sat

Aghast. "'Tis almost treason!

That unpremeditated joke before

Has never failed to raise a roar.

"Defective in morality,

Must be that man misguided,

Who fails its brilliancy to see."

His Lordship then decided

To send the man,—despite his tears,—