THE SAILOR'S VIEW.
(1916).
TOO proud to fight? I'm not so sure—our skipper now and then
Has lectured to us on patrol on foreign ships and men,
And other nation's submarines, when cruising round the Bight;
And 'seems to me—when they begin—the Yankee chaps can fight.
Why, if I was in the army (which I ain't—and no regrets)
And had my pick of Generals—from London's latest pets,
To Hannibal and Wellington—to follow whom I chose,