Shall watch henceforth with sharpest scrutiny.
The lakhs not lacking, should swift wisdom lack,
That bâton will descend with thundering thwack
On dolts who dull delay shall cause or suffer;—
But there, our Dufferin is not a duffer.
Red-tape itself would hardly be so mad
As to misread the moral Hyderabad
Reads to Calcutta in this princely proffer.
Punch—for his Queen—acknowledges the offer
Of him who brings, a tribute free as leal,