Well, there's something seems wanting about his equipment.
Trade gravitates somehow, by natural law,
To stickers and stayers, the firmest and fittest.
A fig for mere parchment and diplomat jaw!
Dear France, thou thy insular neighbour oft twittest
As "Shopkeeper"! Well ma'am, j'y suis, and shall stop;
For a Shopkeeper's one who—of course—keeps the Shop!
I've had some experience. Far Hindostan,
And Canada, Africa, Egypt—ah! pardon!
That's just a sore point, and I am not the man