“While exil’d from home, all my speeches seem vain;
Oh give me my old House of Commons again.
The ‘cheers’ and the ‘hears,’ once my own I could call
Give me them, or that sack of wool, dearer than all,
Reid, Reid,” &c.
Punch. April 14, 1846.
Parody for Puseyites.
Though crosses and candles we play with at home,
To go the whole gander, there’s no place like Rome;