The gleaming halls and splendours of Lothair.
Alas for that grand piece of statesmanship,
That glorious work, the Berlin settlement!
So highly lauded by my chosen print
The Daily Telegraph. Almost I seemed
To its great heart none other than a god!
Bulgaria asked for independency;
'Twas granted with a few strokes of the pen.
Some people really don't care what they grant.
But the strong Russ, indignant, worked his will,