E’en though it may be o’er Lord Salisbury’s corse.
The London Figaro. August 21, 1886.
The Infant Prodigy.
My name is Balfour! On the Irish ills
My uncle feeds his flock, a frugal swain
Whose only care is to enforce the law,
And keep myself, his nevvy, in the swim,
And so, relinquishing a placid post—
That is, the Scottish Secretaryship—