“Alas!” said he, “my civic knell

Was rung the day I left Parnell,

For my country’s foes and bent the knee,

To Buckshot and Castle slavery.”

Mary Shandon.

From United Ireland, December 8, 1883.

A Dirge!

(To be said, or sung, by the Electors of Northampton.)

Our Bradlaugh boy to the House is gone,