An Impassioned Appeal to the Premier.
(By a very Common Councilman).
Gladstone, spare that Tree!
(Of course I means the Corporation.)
Touch not a single bough;
(That is, neither the Court of Aldermen or the Court of Common Council.)
In youth it sheltered me,
When I was bound a Prentice.)
And I’ll protect it now.
(Now that I’m a full-blown Common Councilman.)