Doing-In Queen Victoria Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Edward Oxford fired shots at the young pregnant queen
As she rode in her carriage in gloria
He missed and was found to be mad as a hare
She survived, that great monarch Victoria

John Francis twice shot at this regal ruler
He was banished for life for this trauma
Though he should have been hanged for intention to kill
That great monarch the Empress Victoria

John William Bean was a hunchback of hate
His gun misfired, a fact for euphoria
He was sentenced to18 months hard labouring
For attempting to squish Queen Victoria

William Hamilton, unemployed, bricklayer tried
To shoot her, thus causing hysteria
He was banished to Gibraltar for seven years
Through failing to murder Victoria

Robert Pate, mad, was an ex Army man
Who was sentenced seven years to Tasmania
For smacking her over the brow, with a cane
And bruising the Empress Victoria

Arthur O'Connor jumped over a fence
John Brown, from the North's Caledonia
Felled him & his pistol: then Arthur was birched
And exiled to distant Australia

Roderick Maclean, as she stepped from a train
Fired but missed, Eton boys stopped the drama
He was sent to an insane asylum for life
For trying to do in Victoria

Thus would-be assassins within the UK
Failed at regicide within Britannia
Or was that queen lucky as a butcher's dog
Indestructible, steel proof Victoria?