I rise refreshed and finely fettled

Your cue is not to cheer but warn:

"The further outlook is unsettled."

They are too rare, these halcyon days,

When earth's a paradise rose-petalled,

For you to chill us with a phrase:

"The further outlook is unsettled."

Too often have I shirked the goal

At which (as Scotsmen say) I ettled,

Discouraged by your words of dole: