“Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”

—  Hilaire Belloc

"Epitaph on the Politician Himself"
Hilaire Belloc (1925)

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