For a man to put forth of his best;
When the battle was raging its roughest,
Men have spared themselves never a jot,
But, gentlemen, yours is the toughest
Affair of the lot.
Your countrymen's road through the trenches
Has not proved too easy a course,
For they seem to be hindered by French's
No longer contemptible force,
But their work with the gun and the sabre,