And that the chance I yearn’d for came full soon,
I pass in silence o’er those merry months
When aided by three henchmen (each of whom
Has since had cause to bless the day he helped me),
I made notorious our Fourth Party’s name.
Are not its deeds in Hansard duly writ?
How ’twas I teased and “drew” the Grand old Man?
How, too, I all but broke poor Northcote’s heart?
These things are recent, and men still recall
How, like a freelance, rising from my seat,