Poor Father must have changed a lot.
He had a habit (now he's shed it)
Of patronising "Unser Gott,"
And going shares in all the credit;
To-day he wears a humbler air,
And leaves to Heaven the whole affair.
He's modified his sanguine view
About the foes he meant to batter;
He talks no more of barging through;
He frankly owns it's just a matter