The sneer from Tory bench, each night’s delay,

The seeking after office, and the groans

The patient member meets with when he speaks,

When he himself might their quietus make

In the wrong lobby? Who would measures hear

For which, he voting, acts an endless lie;

But that the dread of something afterwards,

The represented “county” from whose poll

No renegade returns,—puzzles the will!

And makes us rather bear the ills we have,