POETRY.
OUR LUCKY GOVERNMENT.
••Ai 4rtec:al Providence watches over the Government."—Daile Chronicle, AeThet ;rays of Providence are unsernpulous."—Mrs. M.ErflOP.
WHEN rifts within the Liberal lute Are ominously clear,
And friendly candour, never mute, Grows odiously sincere, Some pow'r celestial intervenes To save the Nation's Soul, And welds potential smithereens Into a solid whole.
When, thanks to Churchill's wanton threat And Seely's bungling ways, Precautionary measures set The country in a blaze, By special Providence incensed, John Ward stood up to sling Red-herring calumnies against The Army-and the King. When party rancour in the House Rolled with so fierce a tide That men of balance and of twos Seemed ripe for homicide.
With tact immense kind Providence Laid hold on George's throat, And cleared the way for Edward Grey To sound a milder note.
When Truth, undaunted though defied, In indignation rose And could not wholly be denied A bearing by her foes, Prevarication, beav'nly maid, Descended in her might And lent her Providential aid To prove that black was white.
Foiled in the vengeance you had planned On those who braved your ire, And loth your fratricidal hand To stay from blood and fire, 0 lucky Government, long hence Shall men your skill revere In making Special Providence
The Devil's Grand Vizier ! It. S. V. P.
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