In a fiasco great!
But at last, at last, the Prince his labour finds repaid—
The Imperial Institute’s foundation stone is laid!
When first the grasping “Gang” its birth decreed,
And greedily made Kensington its site,
The project’s progress was but small, indeed,
And the subscriptions strangely light.
And though the Prince to the occasion rose,
And summoned all the Mayors to town;
Though hints of knighthood, too, were given to those