Has Repeal, that in 'Forty was folly,
Grown sense in Eighteen-seventy-two?
Will the walls that defied Big Dan's volley,
Be by Butt's brass two-pounder split through?
Has Paddy, that still has craved ruling
And rulers, in wrong as in right,
Of a sudden out-grown schools and schooling,
And shot to Self-Government's height?
And was it but bottomless boasting,
With a point from Hibernian wit,—