(after Macaulay)
All who could help or hurt at Court,
ministers, mistresses, priests, were
kept in good humour by presents
of shawls and silks, birds’ nests and
attar of roses, bulses of diamonds,
bags of guineas.
Lord Macaulay, as quoted in The Company that ruled the waves, The Economist, 17 December 2011. By Rishi Dastidar.
Verbatim Poetry 