Over my straw-crowned poll the blue skies laugh;

A waterfall (no charge) completes a view

Equal to any German oleograph.

There are no bugle blares to make me jump,

But just the jodler calling to his kine;

A few good Teuton toadies, loud and plump,

More than suffice me in the levée line;

And, when poor ALEXANDER, there in Greece,

Writes of your "agents" rounded up and sacked,

I am content with privacy and peace,