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,