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Journal Article
To be Sung at all Conservative Dinners
2018
Overview
\"4 Its cosily traditionalist content made it a favorite performance item at Conservative socio-political gatherings.5 Dickens's version subverted its sentiment: the second and the last of its eight verses provide a flavor: The good old laws were garnished well with gibbets, whips, and chains, With fine old English penalties, and fine old English pains, With rebel heads, and seas of blood once hot in rebel veins; For all these things were requisite to guard the rich old gains Of the fine old English Tory times; Soon may they come again! The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, In England there shall be dear bread—in Ireland, sword and brand; And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, Of the fine old English Tory days; Hail to the coming time![6] And, no doubt remembering his long night among the City of London Conservatives five years earlier, Dickens appended to the title \" To be said or sung at all Conservative Dinners.\"
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
