And, when a house is split in twain,

Ruin occurs—ay! there's the rub

Alike for Labour and Beelzebub.

And anyhow I hope that, where

At red of dawn on Rigi's height

He jodels to the astonished air,

Lloyd George is bent on sitting tight;

Nor, as he did in Thomas' case,

Nurses a scheme for saving Smillie's face.

Why should his face be saved? indeed,