SIR HUDSON Lowe, Sir Hudson Low, By name, and ah! by nature so) As thou art fond of persecutions, Perhaps thou ' st read , or heard repeated, How Captain Gulliver was treated, When thrown among the Lilliputians. 'They tied him down - these little men did- And having valiantly ascended Upon the Mighty Man's protuberance, They did so strut! -- upon my soul, It must have been extremely droll To see their pigmy pride's exuberance! And how the doughty mannikins Amused themselves with sticking pins And needles in the great man's breeches: And how some very little things, That past for Lords, on scaffoldings Got up and worried him with speeches. Alas, alas! that it should happen To mighty men to be caught napping! Tho' different too these persecutions; For Gulliver, there, took the nap, While, here, the Nap, oh sad mishap, Is taken by the Lilliputians! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL by WILLIAM BLAKE A CRADLE SONG by PADRAIC COLUM THE INVITATION by GEORGE HERBERT OUR COUNTRY by JULIA WARD HOWE A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON THE OUTGOING OF SABBATH by ALTER ABELSON |