Damn the air-raids, damn the coupons,

Damn the lack of meat and sugar.

Two long years I’ve waited for you,

After two long years I’ve got you,

London and my green-eyed Phyllis.”

So they lingered over dinner

As a lover reads a letter

Lest the end should come too quickly.

Then he bore her to the Gaiety,

And the joyous Tiadatha