MAKES BANBURY CROSS!!!

THE OLD MEMBER

I will go down to the House again

And sit—in the smoking room,

And brood, with a friend with a first-class brain,

In a state of abysmal gloom:

And all I’ll ask is a tall glass,

A pipe and a game of chess;

For the country’s gone to the dogs, my lass,

And who’s to clean up the mess?