They have had their fun and fighting, and they must be getting slack,
Stop all leave and start manœuvres—for the good old times are back."
Then destroyers and torpedo-boats and submarines and oilers
Will receive a little notice headed "Maintenance of Boilers,"
"To economise in fuel while the ships are out at sea
Each pound of steam will count as two, and every knot as three."
We'll have the old manœuvre Rules to show us what to do.
"I rose within two thousand yards and have torpedoed you,"
My counter-claim is obvious—to port you must retire,"
"I sank you with a Maxim gun just as you rose to fire."