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 While as for Revelations, these Would simply bring him to his knees, And leave him whimpering like a child. It drove his Colleagues raving wild! They let him sink from Post to Post, From fifteen hundred at the most To eight, and barely six—and then To be Curator of Big Ben!... And finally there came a Threat To oust him from the Cabinet!

The Duke—his aged grand sire—bore The shame till he could bear no more. He rallied his declining powers, Summoned the youth to Brackley Towers,