You own our cause is just, yet can't refrain

From libelling those who made its justice plain;

You chide the Prussian Junkers, yet proclaim

Our statesmen beat them at their own vile game.

Thus, bent on getting back at any cost

Into the limelight you have lately lost,

And, high above war's trumpets loudly blown

On land and sea, eager to sound your own,

We find you faithful to your ancient plan

Of disagreeing with the average man,