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Excerpt from Lord Beaconsfield: A Paper Read by T. T. Hayes, Junr;, Before the Members of the Leigh Liberal Club
This is an author the first of our day, Who wrote the great Novel of Vivian Grey, And another grand and instructive book, How to dine and drink and dress like a a Duke, Also an Epick, whose sale's at zero, And of these he is himself the hero Though the fates won't let him just now be glorious, He at least contrives to be ever notorious, Sometimes stealing the hearts of the blues In velvet trousers and crimson shoes, With jewels and chains, and rings from Ransom, And a face oh was anything ever so handsome Sometimes deigning to teach mankind, Such times require one master mind To control the world - 'mid the whirl and whiz Of jarring systems, - such mind being his. At Taunton a zealot for Lords and Throne, A republican stout in Mary-le-bone, Spoutmg alternately Archer and Scrubb, For my lady and the Carlton Club, But 10 at a few withering epithets sore, And to live in the newspapers one day more, This is the man Who has challenged the man Who challenged the man Who challenged the great Agitator.
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