But oftener set them down to bile

And eating too much green-stuff, like a rabbit;

I've dreamed a dream that, when the drums are still

And stern Bellona, from her steel unbodiced,

Regrets the overthrow of Kaiser Bill

(Of all strange cranks, excepting one, the oddest),

Disarmament and gentleness

May also come to G. B. S.,

And, turned from wrath, he shall confess

Britain in triumph was supremely modest.