But her son she did not know,
And she neither smiled nor wept.
Rose a nurse of ninety years,
Set a pigeon-pie in sight:
She saw him eat—"'Tis he! 'tis he!"
She knew him—by his appetite!
In January, 1882, Mr. Cook speaking at a public meeting in reference to the state of affairs in Ireland at that time, observed that he could not better represent Mr. Gladstone's position in this land question than by quoting a parody on that celebrated poem of Tennyson's, "Home they brought her warrior dead":—
Home they brought Montmorres dead,
He nor sighed nor uttered cry.