Upon my word, I think that pull is splendid.
Les dames, long pooh-poohed, now display ability
To do—most things as well as ever men did.
Because I'm gai and witty, fools—of course—
Fancied me destitute of sinewy force.
Ah, Delahaye, Drumont, and Andrieux, verily
You've found the game was hardly worth the—scandal!
My firebrand foes played up that game right merrily;
Against me anything would serve as handle;
Yet, after Wilson, Panama, (and Siam),