When the time arrived for retiring,

And we heard the door-keeper say, "It's no fun

Our attendance to watch him requiring."

Slowly and softly they shut the door,

After Radical, Whig, and Tory;

And muttering out, "We'll stop here no more,"

They left him alone in his glory.

Punch, December, 1847.


"GRAVE SENTIT ARATRUM."