He lowly bent his head.
Said I, “The members in for ‘Brum,’
All one sort seem to be.”
“Yes, seven in all,” he said, quite glum,
But, there, we’ve no M. P.!”
“And who are they?” I asked, “Say, do!”
Quoth he, “Cook, Broadburst, Bright,
And Williams, Kenrick, Dixon, too—
And ‘Joe’ has won his fight!”
“What, not e’en Randolph in,” said I.