Sketches in verse at home and abroad : and from the war of the Nile in ten cantos / by John McCosh.
- John McCosh
- Date:
- [1882]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sketches in verse at home and abroad : and from the war of the Nile in ten cantos / by John McCosh. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![c.Ktrro IV] HOME AND ABROAD. 99 XLVIII The Tories wordy warfare wagins;, Half of the world at once engaging, The downfall of the realm presaging, Whilst W. E. G. reigns ; O J What rocks ahead their chief should shun, What he has done, and what undone. As much in earnest as in fun. Their policy a Cain's ! XLIX How old Britannia survives. How men in place preserve their lives. How so engrossed console their wives, Can not be comprehended, Seeming to live by pitch and toss. The heads the gain, the tails the loss. The gain the gold, the loss the dross. And not to be amended. L This is election-day in And to the poll electors run; A candidate has just begun His voluble address; A Tory of the olden school. Proving that Whigs the State misrule. And that the Premier is a fool. And full of wickedness ! 7—2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28709913_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
