Full many a Bill with confidence serene

Such Members to the House of Commons bear—

Full many a Bill thus brought them dies unseen

In wasted talking on St. Stephen’s air.

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife

The few remaining Members crave to stray;

And hints of cool, sequestered vales are rife.

Or mountains, seas, and foreign cities gay.

Beneath these Hyde Park elms, this chestnut’s shade,

Where heaves the turf in many a flower-clad heap