From behind police protection the Members watched the fun! – Daily Paper

When a score, of so, of women, armed with their sex’s cause,

Went (without police protection) to the makers of our laws,

To ask that right and equity and justice should be bone,

From behind police protection the Members watched the fun!

Have these gentleman (?) forgotten the deeds so true and brave,

Done by women in past times their fellow-men to save?

Did they think of Florence Nightingale, to mention only one

When behind police protection the Members watched the fun?

When they think of all the sport they’ve missed, living in

this milder age,

I’m sure they swear and stamp their foot and gnash their teeth

with rage,

Had they lived when Joan of Arc was burnt, no doubt they would

have run

Behind police protection, and have stood and watched the fun

They might have seen Jane Grey, so wise, and Mary, Scotland’s

Queen

Lose their heads upon the block, grand times those must have been!

They might have seen Hypatia, torn to pieces by the mob –

O! The fun they’ve missed and the sport they’ve lost! It almost

makes one sob!

Could the Suffragettes be burnt alive, in say, Trafalgar Square,

And Parliament had an “evening off” so that Members could

            be there

I’m sure the thing quite thoroughly and properly could be done,

And behind police protection they could stand and watch the fun.

Now each gentleman (?) had a mother, wo, if she’s living still,

Must glow with admiration, and with pride her heart must thrill,

When she reads how brave and chivalrous, was the behaviour

of her son,

When behind police protection, he stood and watched the fun.

                                                                        M.A. Page