“Red battle’s glory,” “honour’s utmost task,”
“Gay jesting faces of undaunted boys,” ...
The same old Boys’-Own-Paper balderdash!
Mind you, I don’t deny that they exist,
These abstract virtues which you gas about—
(We shouldn’t stop out here long, otherwise!)—
Honour and humour, and that sort of thing;
(Though heaven knows where you found the glory-touch,
Unless you picked it up at G.H.Q.);
But if you’d commonsense, you’d understand