If there’s a blunder committed by Englishmen,
Each Blue will see it who passes the Border!
’Tis said they’ve discovered perpetual motion,
Attached to their tongues, ’twill be henceforth their own;
And this job completed, some folks have a notion
They’re all seeking now the Philosopher’s Stone.
An enemy slanders
Their ablest commanders,
Their heads vacuum engines he calls (’tis a joke),
Says Watts’ Steamer teaches