Let not the Upper House disdain the toil,
Nor by inaction rouse the slumbering storm;
Nor Bishops hear with a disdainful smile
Their proud position threatened by reform.
The boast of Birmingham may make them cower,
And all that Palmerston or Derby gave
May yield alike to Nonconformist power,
Nor even Shaftesbury his creatures save.
Nor you, Reformers, lay to us the fault,