That you performed an unrehearsed lustration;

That there you linger, having caught a cold,

Followed by inflammation.

Others assert that your asbestos hut,

Conveyed (with you inside) to Polish regions,

Promises to afford a likely butt

To Russia's wingéd legions.

But, whether this or that (or both) be true,

Or merely tales of which we have the air full,

In any case I say, "O Wilhelm, do,