Pasture, or moorland, or woodland fair,

John Hodge and his brats may not settle there;

Not there, not there, my man!

Trust not, oh trust not, to statesmen’s smiles;

These visions so fair are delusion’s wiles

And the acres are only “Chateaux en Espagne,”

Built up in the head of Joe Chamberlain;

They are there, they are there, my man!

Edward Walford, M.A.

Life, December 10, 1885.