The stars in their calm courses may be confidently trusted
To fight against this Lucifer until his rule is “busted.”
That is, one might feel confidence in influences stellar,
But our poor unconscious Guy Faux has got into the wrong cellar!
It is the House of Lords, alas! that he is mining under,
And it and he will presently go up in flame and thunder,
That is, they may in flame go up, if Guy Faux do not falter;
But we’ll hope at the last moment his explosive plan he’ll alter.
Punch. November 8, 1884.
A Bradlaugh Ballad.