But though mine are chains of iron,
Theirs are chains which gird the mind!
Wait awhile, boys! Go ahead!
Safety comes for thieves and knaves,
Felons shall not then be slaves—
Go ahead, boys! Go ahead!
(Five verses omitted.)
This parody occurs in a very scarce pamphlet, of which no copy is to be found in the Library of the British Museum, entitled The Puppet-Showman’s Album, illustrated by Gavarni. This is not dated, but it was evidently printed about 1848, or 1849. It contains imitations, either in prose or verse, of Lord Macaulay, Bulwer Lytton, Leigh Hunt, G. P. R. James, B. Disraeli, Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, A. Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, W. M. Thackeray, W. H. Ainsworth, Douglas Jerrold, Walter Savage Landor, Mrs. Trollope, John Wilson Croker, Charles Mackay, Albert Smith, and Coventry Patmore.
Voices from the Crowd in Fleet Street.
There’s a good road making, boys,