Could only follow with envious eye,

Hearts in the doldrums and heads on the rack,

That numberless crowd at the Piper’s back,

A mighty flood whose resistless roll

Swept that Piper’s foes from their place at the Poll.

*  *  *  *  *

Off for the Holidays.—the Pied Piper of
Westminster leading the way.

Have ye not in memory kept

How, when out into the street