Did you play Diogenes—without his lamp—

Daudet? Daudet-say?

Have you joined the pessimist churls

Who of nothing good can say,

That you slight our women and insult our girls,

Daudet? Daudet-say?

Oh, Dan seems empty and Beersheba bare,

Daudet! Daudet!

And there's nothing tasteful, and there's no one fair,

Daudet! Daudet-say!