Asquith

M*TT*W ARN*LD

Others answer our questions - Thou art free. We ask and ask - Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge! You to pass the Bill Would, with your peers, uncrown His Majesty;

Planting some hundreds barons, five or three, Making the Upper House your voting place, Sparing the plutocratic of the race To the foil'd scheming of democracy;

And then, when asked to name the peers to be, Self-schooled, self made, self honoured, self secure, You use a phrase unguessed at - "Wait and see."

Such snubs the Opposition must endure, All questions which they put, all doubts they raise, Find their reply in that Asqithian phrase.