And you'll hardly now find any to retort, "Oh, teach your granny!"
Or to twit the "little kid" with youth's presumption.
For the stalwart Teuton listens, and the Great Bear's optic glistens,
And the "Melican" "lays low and don't say nuffin',"
Save to whisper to John Bull, "He's no mug, by a jug-full,
Who out of the Chinee has knocked the stuffin'!
Infant phenomenon? Wal, I rayther guess he's gone
And chalked it out a caution. He's a spry 'un!"
And John Bull, who'll have to strain to keep monarch of the main,
Thinks the infant Jap a chap to keep his eye on!