And they’re omnipresent, alack!—
Are given to leaving behind them
Of “h’s” a well-defined track.
Nor speak of the year’s recreations,
Its billiards, its cricket galore;
With breaks and with scores—such sensations
As London ne’er looked on before!
Nor talk of the lamp-lit “Inventions,”
Whose management, showing small nous,
A sum of enormous dimensions