If to differ one makes bold,
Is it fair, Sir, to infer,
That he’s rascal, traitor, cur?
Pooh! That’s Party’s puerile plan,
Wisdom, Sir, should play the man.
Drop these tart polemic pennings,
Leave that sort of stuff to Jennings.
Punch. July 23, 1887.
Lines to the Electric Light in the Reading Room of the British Museum.