THE CHARGE OF THE SEVENTEEN. (A Long Way After Tennyson )

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 512, 31 August 1875, Page 2

THE CHARGE OF THE SEVENTEEN. (A Long Way After Tennyson )

Hllf io Le*gu»— all in L eaj!tl e, All intrign*— lank anA lean, -All inlhe Parliament Stood the SETBWTniir. «• Clnmour, condemn, nprnid. •' Talk again** time," they said, " Bother the Wmintrp, "Dont BhVk »t any lie" C riod tho SXTBNTBBF. S^urTT the tricks tHey play'J. Wreicfiea th* KJhemei they saM. Up fftooa ex-GoTemor Grey Often he blunder'd. Theirs not th« troth tf> try, TKeir't not to reason why, Their'i to pet up n cry, Government to defy ; Berenteen they number'd. Orey to the. ri?ht of them, Fitz to *h« I*>ft of them, Shephrtn io front of the^L, Spouted and talked in »pleem, AmenamenN »nd foolish talk— Trvine the "Bills to "baulk » All in ProTinelal pay Humhnse'fl fcv $\r Oirof, Stood the Sv/KNTsm, f n«"ert thn*© look me hlu» Fearing the lots of scroir, TTangers on not a fe"w, Nothine clue fit to do, Threadhwre-ind lean. Men who had filled their folii Out. of ProTincial jof>f«, — Awfully stuck-up snobs, Shabhy and nrea**. Wood, who hat tiirnod hit eoaft White in tl 0 frlf-v»me boat, One who has sold hit Tot.a, Selfish StVEvmw ! Sf efford to th* right of them, Ormond to the left of t^em, "McXi^an in front of them, Didn't ther look meant Beaten h? thirty-fir*, Roguery cannot thrive. Logrolling won't unmre, The BBVKKTIIH. Long shall the tele he sunff. How the Frorincinlists clung To aftVries baeely Wrunp, In wars most mean. How they the people tax, ■ While rich and fat they wax, And in thp spoil " go snapk«," BhairiA hn tht. s^fiih I^aokg, Base SxventesV !

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