SALISBURY'S LAUREATE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 19 October 1888, Page 13

SALISBURY'S LAUREATE.

Mb. Goschen's eloquence was by no means the only instrument of conversion relied upon by the Durham Conservatives in their recent demonstration at Wyugard Park. According to a correspondent of the Nprik Mattem Gazette tbe poet.c muse of the Tory party was invoked on the occasion, with a success which must have surprised, and possibly delighted, Mr. Goschen. Here are two samples of ths Unionist poems distributed broadcast among Lord Londonderry's guests :— THE G.O.M. When the Grand Old Man goes to his doom He will ride in a fiery chariot, And sit in state On a red -hot plate Twixt Satan and Judas Iscanot. Says the Devil, " My place is quite full, as you see, But I'll try and do all that 1 can. So I'll let Ananias and Judas go free, And take in the Gracd Old Man." But the Devil Boon found the whole thing a sell, For old Gladdy corrupted all people in Hell. GONE, GONE. Gone from the sweets of office, Gone from the bead of affairs ; Gone in tbe head, they tell us ; Gone — and nobody cares ; Gone, not to join the angels, Gone to reflect on tbe past, Gone into Opposition ; Gladstone's gone at last I Gone, let us hope for ever, Gone, whither none can tell, Gone, let us hope to Heaven, There are devils enough in Hell. Says Satan, " Tbe place is as full as can be, But I like to make room if I can." So he let Ananias and Judas go fiee, And took in the Grand Old Man. If Lord Tennyeon should cease to be Poet Laureate Lord Salisbury need now be at no loss to find his successor.— Pall Mall Gaatttc.