On milk of human-kindness fed,

Our men will lose their taste for gore;

All this unauthorized good-will

Must be corrected by a bitter pill."

And forth you strode with stiffened spine

And met a Saxon in the mud

(Not Anglo-) and with fell design

To blast his joyaunce in the bud,

And knock his rising spirits flat,

You handed him a Punch and said, "Take that!"