And therefore will do.'
VI.
The poet wrote the poem I quote,
'The Victim,' whose life the priests would destroy
But the Editor knows ere now, I suppose,
That he is the victim, and not the boy:
'Tis he must bleed for this rhythmic deed
And ever for more, as the public cry,
May Alfred the Great—the Laureate—
Shriek out 'the dearest, the dearest am I!'