(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