Ere you won official Aidenn—is the charge with which is laden
Every cackling speech you make—if you do represent BALFOUR,
That mature and minxish 'maiden' whom the PATS call 'Miss BALFOUR,'"—
Quoth the bird, "Obstructive Bore!"
"Here! 'tis time you were departing, bird or not," I cried, upstarting;
"Get you back unto the Carlton, they on parrot-cries set store.
Leave no feather as a token of the lies that you have spoken
Of the Man, Grand, Old, Unbroken! Quit his bust above my door.
Take thy claws from off his crown, and take thy beak from off my door!"
Quoth the bird, "Obstructive Bore!"