Long live each acti temporis laudator!
Long live Lloyd George in unmolested Pitt-ness!
Long live “The Nation,” facile demonstrator
Of everybody’s—save its own—unfitness!
Long live Valera, Carson, Devlin, Plunkett!
Long live the lads who fight, the cads who funk it!
Long live our German banks, sub duce Plender!
Long may our railways rule our bounding sea!
Long may impatient Cuthberts paw their fender,
What time their patient Phyllis pours their tea!