By the priest’s Confessional,
By man’s faults transgressional;
Ah! that whispered word I catch—
Yes, I’m right for Colney Hatch.
Benjamin D——. His Little Dinner. 1876.
Mr. Gladstone and the “Daily Telegraph.”
(The hour of midnight strikes.)
Mr. Gladstone (at his casement.)
This is the hour when churchyards yawn, they say;