But each has gone to pipe his eye

And whimper to his mother!

“And as they went I raised my hat,

I smiled and coughed: Ahem!

And there upon the poll I sat,

I sat and laughed at them.

“The first to fail was Lord Chur-chill,

Bright made him dull, by Joe!

Then Showell showed extremely ill,

And Lowe looked very low!”