Yes—"Vive la France!"—and "Vive la Russie!" too.

Vive—why not?—everybody!

Called once, "Monsieur le Président Faute-de-Mieux"[2]

(By Punch, that foe of shoddy).

I fancy I have justified the name,

Ay, to the very letter.

I may not be a THIERS, but all the same,

France has not found a better.

Tall-talk is tedious, but one must not flinch

When asked the task to tackle;