And though among them I shall find
The learned, the brilliant, and refined,
If on me they shall e'er reflect,
No senate chamber shall protect
Their guilty pates and heated brains,
From hideous gutta percha canes."
The election of N. P. Banks, as speaker of the House of Representatives, is mentioned in the succeeding lines:—
"But recently the north drove back
The southern tyrants from the track,