78 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Look back to Maiden and Pelé, 

 The Short Hills interlude; 

 Look back to Prescott's bloody field, 

 And Windsor, still more rude. 



All villainous — most villainous! 

 Not one redeeming act, 

 Historians cannot better it. 

 Nor e'er dispute the fact. 



But when we think upon the thing 

 That led you on to war; 

 A monkey vile chock full of bile, 

 It beats the Globe by far. 



The monkey first made you to thirst, 

 For acres and for dollars; 

 And now in cage, it spends its rage 

 On Uncle Sam's tight collars. 



Robert F. Gourlay. 

 Edinburgh Castle, Feb. 5, 1840. 



