MINISTERIAL I0 TRIM/PRE
ON THE DEFEAT OF THE " ODIOUS " TRIAD, " VISE, JUST, AND BENEFICENT."
We have not in the pillory stood, But strut like honest man; For Palmerston, our genius good, Has brought us off again !
We scarce were warm with sundry kicks From Bright and Hansard's page, When, like some god in tragic fix, He wheel'd upon the stage ; And now, like " gentlemen" we feel, Whose pride no man must hurt. What matter if we apatter'd Peel With our envenom'd dirt ?
What matter,. kind confiding friends ? A cotton-spinner he ; But we are swells, the odds and ends Of " old nobility."* A cotton-spinning patriot he, Who only look'd to truth •
But we are sprigs of chivalry,
Romancers from our.youth.
And if our " Dizzy " flashy be, Scarce, worth mid " nobs" a place, He still can trace his pedigree From the Caucasian race.
So none must quiz with taunt or jeer The change that we have made, Although our squads look'd somewhat queer Defiling for Free-trade.
We gulp the dose with half-shut eyes, We gulp because we must ; But not because we think it " wise, Beneficent, and just."
Such cause of change would shameful be ; But change like ours is grand, Worthy of Chowler's chivalry, The champions of " the land."
We change, to have of power our fill, Our fill of golden dust ; We change, but unencumber'd still With " good " or " wise " or " just."
We change, yet all untaught are we; We " bow," not understand; We still are Chewier's chivalry, As lumpish as our land.
We gulp Free-trade with half-shut eyes, We gulp, because we must But mark! we have not own'd it " wise, Beneficent, and just."
*See Lord John Manners's Poems. B.
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