He does not claim a long descent from titled rogues of old,
He owns no broad domains for which he hath his country sold,
But looks the whole world in the face, for honour makes him bold—
This brave, true-hearted, Grand Old Man,
Plain Gladstone is his name.
In times gone by this Grand Old Man the cause of Free Trade led,
With Bright and Cobden he has helped to give the poor man bread,
And in dark homes of poverty, the light of plenty shed,
And little children bless his name, for he their lips hath fed—