LITTLE WILLIE'S OPINION OF FATHER.
["How long the conflict may last lies in God's hand; it is not our business to ask questions about it.... It is not the Prussian way to praise oneself.... It is now a matter of holding out, however long it lasts."—Extract from Speech by the KAISER, delivered near Arras.]
I fear that Father's lost his nerve.
As I peruse his last oration
I seem to miss the good old verve,
The tone of lofty exaltation,
The swelling note of triumph (Sieg)
That often carried half a league.
The drum on whose resounding hide
"He brought to bear such weight and gristle