Be its blow not this time, as aforetime, belated!
Let Europe not bleed for the sin of the Turk!
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.
New Parish-Council Version.
(By a Landlord and Lover of the Good Old Times.)
[At Merton, Surrey, where Mr. William Morris has his factory, a blacksmith was highest of the fifteen successful candidates for the Parish Council, the vicar being eighth.]
Over the vicar, top o' the tree,
The Village Blacksmith stands;
The smith a mighty man is he,