Low let the Image lie and tell its fate,

Poignant memento, like our own renowned

ALBERT Memorial (close to Prince's Gate).

For me, the tablets of my heart, I ween,

Sufficiently recall these fateful years;

I need no monument for keeping green

All that I suffered in the Volunteers;

Therefore I urge the Army Council, at

Its earliest leisure, please—next week would do—

To raze the hutments opposite my flat,