But no one could challenge the law.

And while all the Bishops look awfully grave,

Dancing round them Dissenters are seen,

Their liquor’s Cape-port, and as horrid the stave,

They chant “To the health of Colenso the Brave[95]

And his convert, the native so clean;”

Shirley Brooks. 1865.


A Bishop there was at Natal

A Zulu he had for his “Pal,”