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Lines Suggested by Mr John Abbott's Eulogy of Gladstone.

Behold ! I had a vision, or 'twas in * the Herald's page.' A phrenotogio eulogy on Gladstone's golden age. 'Twas John who strung the pearly oro wn, and set it round with gold ; And this is how the good man wrought, this is the tale he told — ' The Grand Old Man is wiser far than Moses, Job or Saul ; Why, Solomon with all his wit— was not his peer at all ! And brave Achilles never bore such armour as—' our Will ;' Demosthenes ne'er spoke a word so godlike as 'our Bill !' Brave Hereward waa a pigmy boy, and Cromwell bat a muff ; (See John's epistle) if yoa dream I'm cramming you with stuff ? Alfred forgive 1 Thou mighty prince, the wrong done thee this day ; It is not I, but gentle John — who takes thy fame away. Only one Gladstone in the world sprang from Pandora's box ; Bless me 1 he's higher far than Pitt— and deeper than a Fox ! And when he walks about, at times, he holds himself so' high That angels have a busy hour a-lif ting np the sky ! Better than Washington the pure, he's ever been since youth ; He reads no gospel but the best— like Labby-Cherry's Truth ! But when to poetry he stoops— faint with our worldly ills, He spends an hoar with Tennyson— or perhaps a day with Wills! And thou. dear Gladstone, do not blush to hear such lof ;y praise ; It is— it is — the greatest gush that thou hast heard for days ! From poet, sage and orator thy praise is now divine ; God grant we get another ' Bill ' with half such brains as thine ! But no ! there is no other man our realm to carry on, Unless we spare (yet God forbid) the talenis of our John ! I have it now ! hurrah, my boys, the world will now go round. By JoveJ we'll spare the lady Mayor of Onehunga town !

— Ravensworth

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Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 795, 24 March 1894, Page 16

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Lines Suggested by Mr John Abbott's Eulogy of Gladstone. Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 795, 24 March 1894, Page 16

Lines Suggested by Mr John Abbott's Eulogy of Gladstone. Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 795, 24 March 1894, Page 16