Martyr your latter days;

But for such shoddy patriots as join

The street-boy's manners to a petty mind,

And dealing little in true-minted coin

Tender the baser kind.

For instance, Smith (till lately Gründelhorn),

Who meets you with your mistress all alone,

And growls a "German beast" with senseless scorn

In a (still) guttural tone.

And Jones, who owes his mansion to the War