24 NOVEMBER 1923, Page 15

AN OMEN ?

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—I have had this parody of Wordsworth's poem running in my head all the week. I hope you can assure me that it is a false omen :— " What is good for a bootless ' Brae'

The Chief Whip to the Premier said ; And the Premier answered 'Endless Sorrow,' - For he knew that his Party's power was dead."

[The best way to treat such omens is to determine to make them untrue by voting Unionist.—En., Spectator.]