Of eloquence quite seraphic.

"And after all's done, has anything gone?"

(Thus ran his peroration),

"Where's the highwayman grabbed, or the burglar nabbed,

For all your big police-station?

Show a dog if you can that has pinned his man!

I pause—for a demonstration."

Some this eloquence scorned, and wouldn't be warned—

But some began to change feature;—

"The Policeman we pay three shillings a day,