Here he arranged to draw the line
(As Siegfried's you were told to hymn it)
And plant Nil ultra for a sign—
Meaning the limit.
And now "There's no such thing," they say;
Well, that implies prophetic sense;
And, if a British prophet may
Adopt their graphic present tense,
I would remark—and so forestall
A truth they'll never dare to trench on:—