III.

Charles Dilke, he looked at Lord Lansdowne―― Lansdowne, he looked at Rosebery―― And sitting there in study brown They passed the bottle rather free; Then sang o’er “dead men’s” _empty_ graves, “Greeks never, never, shall be slaves!”

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_The Sporting Times_, June 14, 1879.

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The following lines were quoted by Mr. G. A. Sala, in the _Illustrated London News_, 24 May, 1879, _apropos_ of a meeting held at Willis’s Rooms, in favour of the claims of Greece to the Treaty rights promised at Berlin:――

The Claims of Greece! The claims of Greece! Which Dilke declared and Roseb’ry sung, Which Dizzy in his Berlin Peace, To the Greek Kalends coolly flung. Eternal Moonshine gilds them yet, And moonshine’s all they’ll ever get!

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THE AISLES OF ROME.