I have been promptly thrust into the gap
Which the involuntary exodus
Of poor Sir Michael E. Hicks-Beach has made.
Now must I urge a valiant attempt
To show my mettle, and, in constant fray
With Ireland’s Home Rule representatives,
Or Ireland’s agitating multitudes,
To justify my elevated state.
Wherefore an’ these, the enemies of law,
Oppose the mandates of our Government,