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;