When Merchant Princes felt no shame
To bear a civic magnate’s name.
That name has sunk below disdain,
No Gresham dons the civic chain,
A Merchant Prince as soon would wear
The garb of Beadle as of Mayor.
But Mayors, and such, will soon be gone,
A new régime is coming on;
We’ll hope to hear, in better times,
Some Gresham hailed by Gresham chimes.