Doing-In Queen Victoria

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?