The griddle-cake’s thar, anyway.
To “Auld Willie.”
(After Bret Harte’s “The Return of Belisarius.”)
So again you’ve been at it, old fellow,
The old game of four years ago;
You’ve given the Tories a drubbing;
You’ve had, so it seems, quite a go.
By Jove! and you were down upon them,
Denouncing, and all that, you know;
But what about Egypt, old fellow,