Truth, Christmas Number. December 1882.
The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Loq.
“I am the cleverest of men! In all that I essay,
It is my rule on no account to second fiddle play.
There’s scarce a talent or a gift to which I lay not claim,
And “Chamberlain” has, thanks to me, become a famous name.
I brook no interference with the plans which I propose;
I’m dictatorial, to a fault, alike to friends and foes.
Nor am I satisfied applause for my own acts to win—