III.

And the rumour, winged by Ate, To the lofty chamber ran, Where great Palmerston was sitting In the midst of his Divan: Like Saturnius triumphant, In his high Olympian hall, Unregarded by the mighty, But detested by the small; Overturning constitutions—setting nations by the ears, With divers sapient plenipos, like Minto and his peers.