On the Tories—they’re doing the country harm.

I’m also possessed of a spell, you’ll see,

To strengthen limp Libs, who’ve gone weak at the knee;

The time-serving Rat and the envious Viper;

And they call me Wandering Willie the Piper.”

And here they observed that he carried his pipes,

This man of the breeze-blown Galashiels stripes,

And his fingers, they noticed, were ever straying,

As if impatient to be playing.

But the Big-Whigs looked just a little bit cool,