That he’s artful and werry profound!
Oh! don’t you remember the school, Ben Bolt,
With its master, the Brummagem screw?
And the screeches we screeched, and the speeches we speeched?—
A howling Republican crew!
I’m not quite so green as the grass, Ben Bolt,
For that letter have made me feel dry:
And if you can bolt all this flummery, Ben,
YOU’RE A DONKEY, BEN BOLT, AND NOT I!!!
England, January 24, 1885.