It has doubled the traffic in trinkets and rings;

It has reconciled us to margarine

And made many fat men healthily lean.

It has answered the critics of Public Schools

And proved the redemption of family fools.

It has turned golf links to potato patches

And made us less lavish in using matches.

It has latterly paralysed the jaw

Of the hitherto insuppressible SHAW.

It has made old Tories acclaim LLOYD GEORGE,