A Queen’s Speech from the Palace of Truth.
My Lords and Gentlemen:—
I’m glad, in meeting you to-day,
To tell you things are going on in much the usual way,
Thanks to my Ministers’ old plan of toadying Powers they fear,
And sitting humbly down beneath snubs open and severe;
Thanks, also, to the patent fact that ’tis Prince Bismarck’s will
This country with all neighbouring lands at peace continues still;
Though ’tis but right this further fact I should to you confide,