And when Randy to Fowler gives “one in the eye.”
That double-chinn’d joker, great Harcourt, must shake
As Coope the Conservative benches doth rake
With his verbal stern-chasers; acidulous Firth
Must be moved to a Mephistophelian mirth.
Oh, it must be some sly compensation, if slight,
For delay of their Measure, to witness the fight
’Twixt the old Corporation, their long-threatened foe,
And those bad Water Companies, equally so.
The Municipal Bill may be under a cloud,