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—