BISHOP BOBADIL.
["As to the course which the English Government should take in this matter, he was in favour of their acting on the principles enunciated in the Sermon on the Mount; but when it was found that a contrary course was necessary, then they must drop the sermon and have recourse to the sword."—The Bishop of Derry, in Westminster Abbey, on the subject of Mashonaland.]
Of old the bully swaggered free,
He recked not how the fight arose;
He wore his warlike panoply,
A hireling and a man of blows.
He knew no mercy, was not meek
(The meek are blessèd, said the Lord);
If one should smite him on the cheek,