Bids bullying phantom hie away;
While horror makes each hair stand steadfast,
Like quill of hedgehog in our head fast!
So stood the Premier of your nation,
When Robson bawl’d out “Defalcation!
Government’s robb’d by wicked men,
And cannot pay NINETEEN POUNDS TEN”!!![65]
So petrified stood bull and bear,
Of Stock Exchange, when the lord mayor,
With vile chagrin and terror quaking,