For their idols are broke, both at Hatfield and Pynes;
And their army, unsmote by the sword or the lance,
Has melted like snow at old Gladstone’s advance.
Alick Sinclair.
The Weekly Dispatch, September 14, 1884.
Mr. Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill.
The Premier came down to the House as of old,
With a smile on his face and a step light and bold,
And the cheers of the Parnellites smote on the air