Such allies deserve my best consideration,
And if you’re disturbed without full compensation,
Come for it to ME, my dears.
Some Jingoes were busy creating a scare.
And he murmured, with jubilation,
“All Europe is stuffed with combustible matter,
And a single live spark from this truculent chatter
Would cause a vast conflagration.”
The very idea of another great war
Amongst Europe’s countless legions