XVIII.

"No," quoth the Cherub: "George the Third is dead."

"And who is George the Third?" replied the apostle:

"What George? what Third?" "The King of England," said

The angel. "Well! he won't find kings to jostle

Him on his way; but does he wear his head?

Because the last we saw here had a tustle,

And ne'er would have got into Heaven's good graces,

Had he not flung his head in all our faces.

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