Nay, more, I will make my clerk return
Those cheques which now in my pocket burn.
Aye, straight is the course that I mean to steer
Through the Legal Terms of the Glad New Year!”
* * * * *
Said a British General, “I will try
To learn that the Alphabet’s not all ‘I.’
With the year now dawning I mean to seek
To become less bumptious and grow more meek;
And learn to remember in former days