"'Twas you, the critics say, who led

The loud War Party's cry

For blood and iron." "Oh!" he said,

"Oh what a dreadful lie!

"'War Party'? Well, I'm Father's pet,

And, if such things had been,

He must have let me know, and yet

I can't think what you mean."

"But your Bernhardi," I replied,

"He preached the Great War Game."