Like a great bee he drones aloud;

He whirls above the shrapnel puffs,

And, laughing, ducks behind a cloud.

He rides aloof on god-like wings,

Taking no thought of wire or mud,

Saps, smells or bugs—the mundane things

That sour our lives and have our blood.

Beneath his sky-patrolling car

Toy guns their mimic thunders clap;

Like crawling ants whole armies are