The Grand Old Pipe

Versions of
The Grand Old Pipe
by J.K.S.

First published as "A Grand Old Pipe" in The Reflector, 22 January 1888, as one of four poems under the title "The Intellectual Decline of a Liberal Unionist." It was later included in Lapsus Calami. (The Grand Old Man was William Ewart Gladstone.) In the third edition the poem was preceded by "To R. K."

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