Page:Lilliput Levee.djvu/21

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
Lilliput Levee.
7

The Constitution! The Law! The Crown!
Order reigns in Lilliput-town!
The Queen is Jill, and the King is John;
I trust the Government will get on.

I noticed, being a man of rhymes,
An advertisement in the Lilliput Times:
"Pinafore Palace. This is to state
That the Court is in want of a Laureate

"Nothing menial required.
Poets, willing to be hired,
May send in Specimens, at once.
Care of the Chamberlain Doubledunce."

Said I to myself, here's a chance for me,
The Lilliput Laureate for to be!
And these are the Specimens I sent in
To Pinafore Palace. Shall I win?