About your book. I’ve read it carefully,
So has Macfaddyen (you remember him,
The light-haired chap who joined us after Loos?);
And candidly, we don’t think much of it.
The piece about the horses isn’t bad;
But all the rest, excuse the word, are tripe—
The same old tripe we’ve read a thousand times.
My grief, but we’re fed up to the back-teeth
With war-books, war-verse, all the eye-wash stuff
That seems to please the idiots at home.