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SONNET III
A CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
“Lord Savile, speaking at Eakring in support of Mr. Hume Williams, Unionist Candidate for the Bassetlaw division of Notts, said that 200 members of the House of Lords had been in the Army and Navy, and seventy served as volunteers in the South African War.
“What was Mr. Lloyd-George doing while these peers were gallantly fighting for their Queen and country, and England was mourning the loss of so many brave sons? He was sitting comfortably in the House of Commons. This was the man—this miserable Little Englander—this enemy of his King and country—who now sought to destroy the Lords, and who considered no device too mean or low to attain this end.”
—Daily Mail, December 23, 1909.The straight good thrust!—and every English soul
That watched the blow felt that the stroke was meet.
When true men speak, base demagogues retreat
Or snarl and foam, furious beyond control.
Remember how this man, when horror stole
From home to home with red news to repeat,
Sat with the dogs who yelped at each defeat
And louder grew, while darker grew the goal.
If in some Dantesque fashion stern and great
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Could fall, would not this man be hurled by Fate
Far from the stars, the sea-waves and the sky,
For ever doomed to twist and writhe among
The venomous refuse of his own foul tongue?
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