(Wailing making a clean sweep of the House of Lords, Mr. Frederic Harrison suggests that any difficulty created by its objections to Home Rule could be easily" got over by conferring peerages on five hundred *sweeps."]
When no longer we hol the traditions of When we break up our old Constitution When the Anarchist school sets up lords of And our law-givers breed revolution When our Government stock is the tumbril and block SVhen the cap of the Commune we try on, And look scornfully down on the old British Crown, Then our rulers, mile While the Ass rai atop of the Lion ed, will do well to give heed To the hints which the Socialists matter, And to look for their peers, in those dark latter years, In the sweepings and sweeps of the gutter. When " Debrett" shall have come all hu-inanity's scum In his lists of the Peerage to table When our armis we shall yield to a noble 4 costing Fswhoee shield Isa fug-brush aggendént in sable When the Lords of the Broom, whom these it (and, no doubt, with te an interviewer Shall think property break through their customs and take Then, and not until then—and we think 70 the using of soap in due season
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.