The answer is: He is pretending to be Ernest.
In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," Algernon confronts Jack and the latter reveals that Ernest is his fictional irresponsible brother he pretends to be in order to have fun and disappear for a few days. Therefore, Algernon, who is deeply in love with Cecily, decides to show up at Jack's country state pretending to be Ernest.
<h3><u>The answer is </u>*Following him the schoolboy crept in unnoticed, in a new uniform, poor little fellow, and wearing gloves.</h3>
The metaphor compares tea with the entirety of the British empire. It starts by saying that 'tea' should be banished and should go back to Britain "where gold enslaves", meaning where money rules all. The song becomes more broad and loses the specific relation to tea, while attacking Britain's strategy of rule, comparing Americans to being enslaved on a "yoke" (treated like cattle). The final stanza loses the metaphor and is an explicit call to action for everyone to stand up and fight for their freedom.
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