We’ve urgent bothers East and West,
And Greece’s claims may be—well, blest!
* * * * *
Fill high the bowl with Cyprus wine!
Hang hopes of nationalities!
The Sultan’s much more in our line,
He serves some schemes of cute Lord B’s.
A tyrant?—well, perhaps; but then
He plays our game, my countrymen!
Punch, April 26, 1879.