Steering, not by course erratic,

Safe to the appointed wharf,

Bring, O bark, the diplomatic

Kneehole desk of Ludendorff.

Softly now, ye dockers, pardie,

Cease your wrangling for a bit,

Dump the seat whereon Bernhardi

Bowed his dreadful form to sit;

Make no scratch however tiny

When the circling crane-arm sags