LORD LUNDY,

     
      Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career.
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          Lord Lundy from his earliest years
    Was far too freely moved to Tears.
    For instance if his Mother said,
    “Lundy! It's time to go to Bed!”
    He bellowed like a Little Turk.
    Or if
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                his father Lord Dunquerque
    Said “Hi!” in a Commanding Tone,
    “Hi, Lundy! Leave the Cat alone!”
    Lord Lundy, letting go its tail,
    Would raise so terrible a wail
    As moved
    His
      Grandpapa
                the
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                           Duke
    To utter the severe rebuke:
    “When I, Sir! was a little Boy,
    An Animal was not a Toy!”
          His father's Elder Sister, who
    Was married to a Parvenoo,
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          Confided to Her Husband, “Drat!
    The Miserable, Peevish Brat!
    Why don't they drown the Little Beast?”
    Suggestions which, to say the least,
    Are not what we expect to hear
    From Daughters of an English Peer.
    His grandmamma, His Mother's Mother,
    Who had some dignity or other,
    The Garter, or no matter what,
    I can't remember all the Lot!
    Said “Oh! that I were Brisk and Spry
    To give him that for which to cry!”
    (An empty wish, alas! for she
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          Was Blind and nearly ninety-three).
          The
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          Dear Old Butler
                     thought—but there!
    I really neither know nor care
    For what the Dear Old Butler thought!
    In my opinion, Butlers ought
    To know their place, and not to play
    The Old Retainer night and day
    I'm getting tired and so are you,
    Let's cut the Poem into two!
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