The Dutch, the devil and the band! I swear

From sheer distraction I could pull your hair!

’Twixt Castro and the Doctrine of Monroe,

My fears are nimble and my wits are slow.

I know not where to go nor how to stop—

Stand fast or, like old Saul of Tarsus, “flop.”

Nothing I know, and everything I doubt—

Dear John, in God’s name put your prow about!

HAY:

Though the skies fall upon the hills beneath