(And really, to give the old Abbot his due
The latter remark was undoubtedly true;)
“And,” he added, “Proceed, your good work and divine in,
As now ’tis our duty to put in the lining.”
* * * * *
All this being done—said the Lord Abbot—“That,
I fancy, completes our New Cardinal’s Hat!”
Yes, the Cardinal’s Hat was completed at last,
And Nicholas Wiseman went rather too fast,
To Rome where that feeble old Potentate Pius,