And the Statues of London were loud in their wail,
And the Griffin, in agony, waggled his tail,
Exclaiming, “Alas! if the Duke’s melted thus,
What chance can there be, then, for eyesores like us?”
Truth, August 16, 1883.
The Destruction of the Tory (not Sennacherib’s) Army.
The Tories came forth in their pride and their strength,
And flooded the land through its breadth and its length
With speeches whose burden no varying knew—