No captain can do very wrong who indicates by guns—
We won't have our manœuvres spoilt by interfering Huns.
Perhaps the wording isn't right, perhaps it isn't true,
But we've got to have manœuvres when there's nothing else to do.")
And when the Censor fades away and leaves the presses clear
For all the "Truths about the War," by "One who has no fear,"
And all the "Contract Scandals," by "A Clerk behind the Door,"
The book I want to see in print is "Humours of the War,"
Though I fear the other Censor (Morals, Cinemas, and Vice)
Would expurgate the best of them as being hardly nice;