Of crackling laughter, and ironic cheers,
And sniggering, "Hear, hears!"—
Thou summest well the humbug of our lives.
The fistic "bunch of fives"
Is not like JULIA's jewelled "palm of milk"
Shrouded in kid or silk,
But JULIA was a sensuous little "sell,"
And SMITH and PRITCHARD—well,
One would not like a clump upon the head
From the teak-noddled "TED,"