And Coercion has carried the day o’er “Repale”;
For till whittled away into Councils and Boards
The scheme of Home Rule has no chance in the Lords.
C. Renz.
The Weekly Dispatch, April 18, 1886.
The Cutting of the Knot.
Great Gladstone came down his new Bill to unfold,
And his cohorts awaited their Leader so bold,
And the noise of their cheers was like tars of the sea,