The country soon
Will bless that boon,
A real Liberal Union!
Then we for conquest or defence
Shall stauncher be and stronger;
Nor is this happy time far off;
We shall not wait much longer.
Truth Christmas Number. 1886.
There was also a parody of this song in The Hornet, May 22, 1872, which is now quite out of date, and another appeared in the St. Stephen’s Review for July 2, 1887. This prophesies that there will be a “good time coming” when an eminent politician goes to——a certain warm but unmentionable place—the good taste of which assertion might not be obvious to some over sensitive people, so the parody is omitted.