Punch: Punch (15.1848)

young france mewling and poking in tbi nurses ARMS. the ouvrier cheeping like snail unwillingly to school.

THE SEVEN AGES OE THE
REPUBLIC.

-France is a stage,

And all her heroes little more than players.
Her Kings their exits have, and entrances ;
And the Republic runs its round of parts,
Its acts being seven ages. First, Young France,
Kmetltihgand plotting, e'en in the nurse's arms ;
Then VWttiet out of work, easquette on head,
And frowning hairy face, going, in faith,
To l.ouis Blanc to school. Then Lamartink,
Spouting away, writing a score of sonnets
I nto Dame Liberty's eyebrow ; then Mobile,
Clapped in strange clothes, and bearding barri-
cades,

Zealous against old friends in sudden quarrel,
Taking a sight at Seath and devastation
E'en in the cannon's mouth ; then C'avaignac,
In power despotic and a state of siege,
With frow n severe, and beard of Algiers cut,
O'er-riding Law with a soldier's insolence—
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shows
I'oor Liberty, with Constitution weak,
Halting 'twixt Anarchy and Despotism,
ller youthful bonnet rouge a world too wide
Wot her shrunk brains, and the big boastful
voice,

Turning again to the old treble, pipes
Louis Napoleon in. Last scene ef all,
That ends this strange, eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,

Udiia trade, sans tin, sans press, sans everything.
lamartine inditing a sonnet to liberty's eyebrow. the garde mobile seeking the bobble bepotatioh'

in the cannon's mooth.

THE JUSTICE, WITH EYES SEVERE AND BEARD
OF FORMAL CUT.

THE LEAN AND 8L1TPERED PANTALOON, WITH
SPECTACLES ON NOSE.

THE LAST SCENE of ALL IN THIS EVENTFUl HISTORY.