Under the prancing heels of Mr. Smillie?

Humour forbids! And even they

Who toil beneath the so-called sun,

Yet often in an eight-hours' day

Indulge a quiet sense of fun—

These too can see, however dim,

The joke of starving just for Smillie's whim.

And here I note what looks to be

A rent in Labour's sacred fane;

The priestly oracles disagree,