The Battle of Beer.

(At a meeting of the United Kingdom Alliance, Sir Wilfred Lawson said the publicans were like a great army armed with bottles.)

The publican on his raid has gone.

All over the land you’ll find him;

A bottle of Bass he has girded on,

And a barrel is slung behind him.

“Oh, drink divine,” said Boniface,

“What though teetotallers make thee

A thing of scorn and of black disgrace,

I never will forsake thee!”