Do you want old Gladstone scarified, the sanguinary schemer?
I will show you how to slander and revile.
(Does so in nine violent verses, savage and scathing,
but scarcely suited for publication.)
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XIV.
There! That cuts every record in the way of party squealing,
That’s the style to pelt and pulverise your foes.
You thought Lord Randolph rabid, but this comes as a revealing,
And there’s lots more where it comes from—verse or prose.
XV.