A VOLUNTEER
HE had no heart for war, its ways and means,
Its train of machinations and machines,
Its murky provenance, its flagrant ends;
His soul, unpledged for his own dividends,
He had not ventured for a nation's spoils.
So had he sighed for England in her toils
Of greed, was't like his pulse would beat less blithe
To see the Teuton shells on Rotherhithe
And Mayfair—so each body had 'scaped its niche,