When he saw the war begin!
Spoke the Kaiser in his wrath to the crown prince,
“What an awful mess you’ve got me in!”
“Squads of Russians, French, and Englishmen,
Swords a-tilt to quell us all;
Couldn’t you wait until we had grown stronger,
With more men and guns on which to fall?
“I’ll not say that I am so displeased,
That you’ve laid Mar’s spirit bare,—
’Tis the will of every noble Deutscher,—