(On a pending Election at the Athenæum Club.)

You tell me that What-you-maccollum

Is up for election this week,

And reasons, convincing and solemn,

For voting against him you seek.

Though Pollock propose, Arnold second,

And a duke and a marquis or so

Support him, they need not be reckoned;

My own Athenæum say “No.”

Though Browning and Bright try to kindle