Good Begbie, no longer upraising

His plea for the "uplift" of Hodge,

Has ceased for a season from praising

Lloyd George and Sir Oliver Lodge;

And there hasn't been much in the papers

About the next novel from Caine

(No doubt he's in Flanders, the guest of commanders

Who reverence infinite brain).

John Ward has forgiven the Curragh

(The Curragh's forgotten John Ward);