Sprawled o'er the question with the which he'd grapple;

PICTON prosed on,—the style in which men preach

In a dissenting chapel.

Prince ARTHUR twined one lank leg t'other round,

Drooping a long chin like BURNE-JONES's ladies;

And HARCOURT, sickening of the strident sound,

Wished CONYBEARE in Hades.

For over all there hung a cloud of fear,

A sense of imminent doom the spirit daunted,

And said, as plain as whisper in the ear,