John Morley: “Until then, why string together the commonplaces and generalities of great things, really unfelt?...”

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.