Portraits of the Coalition
For the R.A. exhibition?

Is he Jacky-obin or anti?
Is he likely to "go Fanti,"
Or becoming shrewd and canty?

Is he in disguise at Kovel,
Living in a moujik's hovel,
Making a tremendous novel?

Does he run a photo-play show?
Or in _sæva indignatio_
Is he writing for HORATIO?

Fired by the divine afflatus
Does he weekly lacerate us,
Like a Juvenal _renatus?_

As the great financial purist,
Will he smite the sinecurist
Or emerge as a Futurist?

Is he regularly sending
HAIG and BEATTY screeds unending,
Good advice with censure blending?

Is he ploughing, is he hoeing?
Is he planting beet, or going
In for early 'tato-growing?